We are off for the Labor Day Holiday weekend. Here, some avian advice on the waning season.
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What else was happening during well known historical events? Where did the fax machine and the Oregon Trail overlap? What about Woolly Mammoths and the Great Pyramids?
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Ah the joy of a good scale bar. Here we find out how big the earth would be if the Milky Way was the size of the US.
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Experience all the highs and lows of graduate school with this new PhD Simulator.
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An architectural tour of the great libraries of China turns up a spectacular place to read a book on the beach.
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Revisiting a post from 2019 in light of the acquisition of protocols.io by Springer Nature. As community-owned and -led efforts to build scholarly communications infrastructure gain momentum, what can be done to help them achieve long term sustainability?
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Why are companies so effective at ruining slang?
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Why are barns red? Bubble gum pink? Why do doctors wear white coats? The reasons vary.
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Today we welcome a new Chef in the Kitchen, Hong Zhou.
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The AI takeover isn’t all doom and gloom. Finally, a long running musical question can be answered.
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It’s Friday. Time to zone out with a film of pencils being manufactured in Japan.
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We are off today and tomorrow for the US Independence Day holiday. Also included, a song that hews carefully to archaic rules about prepositions at the end of sentences.
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Is there a “right” way to speak, or is language policing more revealing about the anxiety of the scolder than the expression of the speaker?
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What does the timeline of human existence look like when physically laid out to scale? How does that compare to the timeline of the universe?
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Quick, without looking, what color is the sun? Would you believe it’s green? Also, please don’t look directly at the sun.
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