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Eliminating the Impossible

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

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

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.

Installation

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

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

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

Binary Star

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

Groundhog Day Meaning

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

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

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

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

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

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

Apples

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

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

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

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

Heart Mountain

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

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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