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Eliminating the Impossible

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20. Februar 2026 um 01:00
'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.

Plums

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18. Februar 2026 um 01:00
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.

SNEWS

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16. Februar 2026 um 01:00
People say setting of fireworks indoors is dangerous, but I looked at their energy release and it's like 10^-40 foe; totally negligible.

Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination

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13. Februar 2026 um 01:00
'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.

Installation

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11. Februar 2026 um 01:00
Do YOU remember the skylight being this big?

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

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06. Februar 2026 um 01:00
Staplers are actually in Pseudosuchia, making them more closely related to crocodiles than to dinosaurs.

Binary Star

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04. Februar 2026 um 01:00
The discovery of a fully typographical star system comes with a big asterisk.

Groundhog Day Meaning

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02. Februar 2026 um 01:00
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.

Proof Without Content

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30. Januar 2026 um 01:00
There's also a proof without content of a conjecture without content, but it's left as an exercise for the reader.

Planetary Alignment

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09. Januar 2026 um 01:00
We're going to need to modify the surface to mount it on the test stand. Which ocean basin do you like the least?

Superstition

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07. Januar 2026 um 01:00
It's important to teach yourself to feel responsible for random events, because with great responsibility comes great power. That's what my wise Uncle Ben told me right before he died; he might still be alive today if only I'd said rabbit rabbit that year!

Tensegrity

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05. Januar 2026 um 01:00
Some people argue that the tension and compression in the human skeleton is technically tensegrity, but it's missing the defining characteristic: making people say 'wtf, how is that thing floating?' when they see it.

Conic Sections

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02. Januar 2026 um 01:00
They're not generally used for crewed spacecraft because astronauts HATE going around the corners.

Apples

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12. Dezember 2025 um 01:00
The experimental math department's budget is under scrutiny for how much they've been spending on trains leaving Chicago at 9:00pm traveling at 45 mph.

Fishing

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10. Dezember 2025 um 01:00
'That's definitely above the catch-and-release size minimum for planetesimals.' 'I'm going to throw it back anyway.'

Hyperacute Interdynamics

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08. Dezember 2025 um 01:00
Our models fall apart where the three theories overlap; we're unable to predict what happens when a nanometer-sized squirrel eats a grapefruit with the mass of the sun.

Chessboard Alignment

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05. Dezember 2025 um 01:00
Luckily, the range is limited by the fact that the square boundary lines follow great circles.

Heart Mountain

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31. Oktober 2025 um 01:00
Even geology papers about Heart Mountain are like, "Look, we all agree this 'volcanic gas earthquake hovercraft' thing seems like it can't possibly be right, but..."

Airspeed

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29. Oktober 2025 um 01:00
Carefully maneuvering the balloon down a mineshaft in an effort to break the OTHER altitude record
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