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Little Red Dots

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After a lot of analysis, I've determined that they're actually big red dots; they're just very far away.
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Amperage

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Oh, and do you have any tips on how to vacuum up copper that's melted into your carpet?
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Eliminating the Impossible

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'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.
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Plums

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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.
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SNEWS

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People say setting of fireworks indoors is dangerous, but I looked at their energy release and it's like 10^-40 foe; totally negligible.
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Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination

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'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.
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Installation

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Do YOU remember the skylight being this big?
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Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

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Staplers are actually in Pseudosuchia, making them more closely related to crocodiles than to dinosaurs.
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Binary Star

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The discovery of a fully typographical star system comes with a big asterisk.
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Groundhog Day Meaning

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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.
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Proof Without Content

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There's also a proof without content of a conjecture without content, but it's left as an exercise for the reader.
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Planetary Alignment

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We're going to need to modify the surface to mount it on the test stand. Which ocean basin do you like the least?
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Superstition

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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!
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Tensegrity

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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.
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Conic Sections

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They're not generally used for crewed spacecraft because astronauts HATE going around the corners.
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Apples

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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.
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Fishing

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'That's definitely above the catch-and-release size minimum for planetesimals.' 'I'm going to throw it back anyway.'
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Hyperacute Interdynamics

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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.
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Chessboard Alignment

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Luckily, the range is limited by the fact that the square boundary lines follow great circles.
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