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    Delightful De-Motivating Quotes...

    “Every dead body on Mt. Everest was once a highly motivated person, so… maybe calm down.” “Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes the reason is you're stupid and make bad decisions.” - “Just because we accept you as you are doesn’t mean we’ve abandoned hope you’ll improve.” “If life...
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    What Happens if a Supervolcano Blows Up?

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    The Most Important Algorithm Of All Time

    PS; The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), has become well known as a very efficient algorithm for calculating the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT). The DFT is used in many disciplines to obtain the spectrum or frequency content of a Signal, and to facilitate the computation of discrete convolution...
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    Lost in Time....

    Received from an old shipmate ………. more truth than fiction here! Such traditions are not confined to the US Navy; rather just about every military branch of every nation has some kind of tradition, the origins of which can be lost in time. A Navy Captain took over as the Commanding Officer of...
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    11-year-old Girl from the Audience on AGT

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    The Sad reality

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    NASA’s NEOWISE Takes 12-Year Time-Lapse Movie of Entire Sky

    NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or NEOWISE, spacecraft completes one trip halfway around the Sun every six months, taking images in all directions. Once stitched together, those images form an “all-sky” map showing the location and brightness of hundreds of millions...
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    Myocarditis Study - Covid-19 Infection vs Vaccine

    Myocarditis is one of the complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Although vaccines have been shown to reduce severe COVID-19 symptoms, heart complications have been associated with mRNA COVID-19 vaccination -; particularly myocarditis in teenage boys. However, the relative risk of myocarditis...
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    Chinese now Training British Pilots

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    A New World Record for Largest Bony Fish ever discovered.

    A new study has revealed that a 6,000-pound giant sunfish found dead in the Azores is the heaviest bony fish ever recorded. The scale-tipping behemoth, known as a giant sunfish or bump-head sunfish (Mola alexandrini), was discovered as it floated lifelessly off the coast of Faial Island, in the...
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    The High Schooler Who Solved a Prime Number Theorem

    Daniel Larsen proved a key theorem about Carmichael numbers — strange entities that mimic the primes. “It would be a paper that any mathematician would be really proud to have written,” said one mathematician. Small Carmichael numbers are rare and here are a few 561, 1105, 1729, 2465, 2821...
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    DART Mission Successful - Result Exceeded Expectations

    NASA’s DART spacecraft shortened the orbit of asteroid Dimorphos by 32 minutes — a far greater change than astronomers expected. The experiment was a smashing success. Before the impact, Dimorphos orbited Didymos every 11 hours and 55 minutes. After, the orbit was 11 hours and 23 minutes, NASA...
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    Aristotle-Confucius Dialogue

    Interesting. Listen to Prof Jeff Sachs.
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    Lexophile contest.

    “Lexophile" describes those that have a love for sentences such as, "You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish," and, "To write with a broken pencil is pointless." An annual competition is held by the 'New York Times' to see who can create the best original lexophile. This year's...
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    Parallel Reality

    Imagine a future at a crowded venue, and you look up at screens to see information tailored to your needs, and which no one else can see. It's called ‘Parallel Reality’, and TRT World's Andy Roesgen takes a look at its first trial at a busy Detroit airport.
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    Nobel Peace Prize 2022

    This year’s Peace Prize is awarded to human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organisation Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties. Ales Bialiatski was one of the initiators of the democracy movement that emerged in...
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    Spooky Action at a Distance - EPR (Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen) Paradox - Bell's Inequality

    With The Physics Nobel Prize 2022, a lot about Quantum Entanglement in circulation. Here's a nice video where Prof Mike Merrifield (University of Nottingham) explains what Einstein called "Spooky Action at a Distance". Recent experiments have spotted this effect in objects small enough to see...
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    The Riddle That Seems Impossible Even If You Know The Answer

    The classic 100 Prisoners Problem - first written about by the Danish computer scientist Peter Bro Miltersen in 2003. Here's an interesting recent video.
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    A Day in The Life of a Dictator: Joseph Stalin

    An intersting short 30 min documentary about Stalin.
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    Click & Lego Wins the Chemistry Nobel 2022

    A tool kit for snapping together molecules like Lego blocks has won the 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Chemists Carolyn Bertozzi of Stanford University, Morten Meldal of the University of Copenhagen and Barry Sharpless of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., will evenly split the...

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