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The comments note that not only is the bottle nontransparent, but the scale appears to be in mm for distance , rather than cc for volume....

Although it’s far enough away to keep Earth safe from radiation when it goes supernova , red supergiant star Betelgeuse is about 700 tim...

A Washington Post article reviews a new biography of our first president: Consider the cherry tree story — it’s a myth created in 1800 ...

(I posted this earlier today under the title "I'm puzzled by this road sign.") A photo I encountered while digitizing the...

If you've ever run into one, you know they are not as soft as they look from the outside.  Via .

Data from the Pew Research Center : Roughly a quarter of U.S. adults (27%) say they haven’t read a book in whole or in part in the past...

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Excerpts from a recent article in Wired : It’s perhaps the best known and more worrisome of climate feedback loops: As the planet warm...

The building was demolished in the 1950s.  One comment in the discussion thread noted that the reason for this open vertically-stacked s...

Three examples I encountered in recent weeks of insane medical advice offered (and taken) over social media.   In the top example 2...

I could spend all day blogging endless examples of the dystopia of the modern American medical care delivery system  (not the people... j...

Excerpts from a longread at The Atlantic : If you want to summarize the changes in family structure over the past century, the truest thi...

Excerpts from an interesting article in the Public Domain Review : On a hastily built stage before the busy horse market of Strasbourg,...