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Recursive Trucker's Hitch

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As if the americium smoke detector incident wasn't enough, now nuclear regulators have ANOTHER reason to worry about the Boy Scouts.
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As if the americium smoke detector incident wasn't enough, now nuclear regulators have ANOTHER reason to worry about the Boy Scouts.
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Calibration Nobel

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We would like to once again apologize to Dr. Jones for last year's mistaken announcement. We should really have double-checked the envelope for this award in particular.
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We would like to once again apologize to Dr. Jones for last year's mistaken announcement. We should really have double-checked the envelope for this award in particular.
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Arthurian Connector

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Most coffee shops have a descendant of Sophia of Hanover on staff for this, but just as I was about to ask for help, a previously unknown heir of Uther Pendragon who was ordering a muffin tripped on my laptop cord.
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Most coffee shops have a descendant of Sophia of Hanover on staff for this, but just as I was about to ask for help, a previously unknown heir of Uther Pendragon who was ordering a muffin tripped on my laptop cord.
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marcrichter
3 days ago
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Innovative! 🚀
tbd

Latitude and Longitude

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NGS and IERS are complaining that they left CLEAR instructions to set the washing machine to WGS84 (G2296) instead of WGS84 (G730).
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NGS and IERS are complaining that they left CLEAR instructions to set the washing machine to WGS84 (G2296) instead of WGS84 (G730).
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silberbaer
6 days ago
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Now treat this like a "What If...?". I feel like the amount of surface that is liquid would still leave us with slack lines.
New Baltimore, MI

Time Change

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All discussions of daylight saving time policy are doomed by a mix of contradictory, inconsistent, and impossible preferences, which is why I think the only thing we can really hope to do is to make it worse.
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All discussions of daylight saving time policy are doomed by a mix of contradictory, inconsistent, and impossible preferences, which is why I think the only thing we can really hope to do is to make it worse.
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zwol
8 days ago
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True local solar time for everyone. We have the technology.
Pittsburgh, PA
kyb
8 days ago
That's actually how I set up https://kybernetikos.github.io/UIT/ local solar midnight is always directly down on the clockface and solar midday directly up. It rotates as you travel.
zwol
8 days ago
@kyb Neat!
mxm23
7 days ago
Very cool

The Princess and the Pea

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Once we've fully explored this space, we can start varying the number of princesses.
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Once we've fully explored this space, we can start varying the number of princesses.
HerCarverBidesDew
10 days ago
this should be a grid
jlvanderzwan
10 days ago
A Waddington landscape of epimemetic expression
jlvanderzwan
10 days ago
… ok I just was riffing on "epigenetics", but apparently someone did coin "epimemetics" already. Sadly the first impression I get based on search results is that they're wankers who think they're genius philosophers for coming up with it.
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