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Friday, March 13th, 2026
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Planets and Bright Stars
An old astronomer trick for distinguishing the Sun from other stars is to take multiple photos a few minutes apart and overlay them, making the Sun stand out due to its high proper motion.
Wednesday, March 11th, 2026
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Subduction Retrieval
Aww, the oceanic crust and the continental crust are getting married!
Monday, March 9th, 2026
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Home Remedies
As always, you are permitted to call one person for guidance, but that person must be a grandparent.
Friday, March 6th, 2026
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Bazookasaurus
In contrast to the deep booming sound associated with the cannon in pop culture depictions, recent studies show it actually made more of a 'toot toot!' noise.
Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
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Solar Warning
This replaces the previous solar activity watch, which was issued last month when the sun took off its sunglasses.
Monday, March 2nd, 2026
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Electric Vehicles
Now that I've finally gotten an electric vehicle, I'm never going back to an acoustic one.
Friday, February 27th, 2026
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Dental Formulas
I mean, half of these are undefined. And your multiplication dots are too low; they look like decimal points.
Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
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Little Red Dots
After a lot of analysis, I've determined that they're actually big red dots; they're just very far away.
Monday, February 23rd, 2026
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Amperage
Oh, and do you have any tips on how to vacuum up copper that's melted into your carpet?
Friday, February 20th, 2026
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Eliminating the Impossible
'If you've eliminated a few possibilities and you can't think of any others, your weird theory is proven right' isn't quite as rhetorically compelling.
Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
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Plums
My icebox plum trap easily captured William Carlos Williams. It took much less work than the infinite looping network of diverging paths I had to build in that yellow wood to ensnare Robert Frost.
Monday, February 16th, 2026
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SNEWS
People say setting of fireworks indoors is dangerous, but I looked at their energy release and it's like 10^-40 foe; totally negligible.
Friday, February 13th, 2026
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Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination
'The zero line in WMM2025 passes through a lot of population centers; I wonder what year the largest share of the population lived in a zone of less than 5° of declination,' he thought, derailing all other tasks for the rest of the day.
Wednesday, February 11th, 2026
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Installation
Do YOU remember the skylight being this big?
Monday, February 9th, 2026
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Carbon Dating
This dating is corroborated by the presence of stone tools at the site, rather than earlier and less effective helium ones.
Friday, February 6th, 2026
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Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs
Staplers are actually in Pseudosuchia, making them more closely related to crocodiles than to dinosaurs.
Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
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Binary Star
The discovery of a fully typographical star system comes with a big asterisk.
Monday, February 2nd, 2026
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Groundhog Day Meaning
Originally, the ceremony used a variety of rodents and mustelids, but over time most people agreed it made sense to standardize on a specific individual ground squirrel in Pennsylvania.
Friday, January 30th, 2026
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Proof Without Content
There's also a proof without content of a conjecture without content, but it's left as an exercise for the reader.
Wednesday, January 28th, 2026
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Chemical Formula
Some of the atoms in the molecule are very weakly bound.
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