deeths

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Some bacteria evolved to align with magnetic fields(en.wikipedia.org)
7 points by deeths 3y ago|0 comments
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by deeths 3y ago
Quasicrystals are non-periodic hexagonal crystals that follow the same rules as mathematical penrose tiles. Here's a paper on some interesting theoretical phase transitions that are similar to the type of electron control you mention.
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by deeths 4y ago
For a steampunk throwback of this idea, there are a number of self-playing full orchestras at the House on the Rock (an amazing museum of all things kitsch Wisconsin) that use 100% mechanically driven pneumatically controlled instruments. I
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by deeths 4y ago
This headline, the article, and most of the comments here seem to be going out of their way to present this as a way bigger change than it is. As is clear even from the preview, this is a change to the curriculum of ONE CREATIVE WRITING whe
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by deeths 5y ago
I'm glad that was helpful. I'm in a similar boat of just being interested in this for fun. I have a little more of the math and physics background for it, but it's pretty rusty and I don't need it to understand even most
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by deeths 5y ago
It's hard to know what your current knowledge level is without more information, but it sounds like you're trying to develop a good background more just to dive into areas that seem fun to explore as a hobby, rather than focused s
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by deeths 6y ago
Yeah, sleep time is key for getting things done with kids and toddlers. If your toddler isn't napping much or your kids are staying up late, a sleep consultant can help you reset their schedules (most will handle all the advising over
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by deeths 6y ago
For the first-grader (and some toddlers), you could try kids audio books. Most kids love them and it can keep them entertained for a long time and more mentally engaged than TV. Sometimes my kids just sit and listen, and other times they do
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by deeths 7y ago
Someone posted here on the photoacoustic effect a few days ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21454851 ) and the link above is a cool old paper I discovered down that Internet rabbit hole...
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Alexander Graham Bell's 1880 paper on photoacoustic effect(zenodo.org)
3 points by deeths 7y ago|1 comments
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by deeths 8y ago
Inside out just means that the local equivalent of Earth's geologic plates seem to be subducting below the surface and fresh geologic plate equivalents are abducting back up. You can estimate how long a planetary surface has been expos
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by deeths 8y ago
If a center of mass begins to aggregate in an area of space, smaller objects may get captured and will move in an elliptical orbit with the forming object at one of the foci of an ellipse. Because the other foci of the ellipse is also fairl
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by deeths 8y ago
Here's a link to the press conference slides: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/Press-Conferences/index....
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by deeths 8y ago
I'd published a couple books years ago and the publisher's benchmark was 2000-4000 copies (depending on variables within their business) over any period of time was a commercial success. If you've done 300 in the first few mo
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by deeths 9y ago
This reminds me a bit of how flubber works in the 1960s Disney movie "The Absent-Minded Professor".
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by deeths 9y ago
If the SEC gives guidance that something is high risk, and you are paying someone to managing your money with the understanding that you want a low-to-moderate risk portfolio, then if they lose it on what the SEC calls high risk, now you ha
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by deeths 10y ago
The article says the earnings are $500 more future yearly income _per one incremental year in public housing_. For someone in public housing for a number of years, this is significant.
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Mystery of chains of craters on Phobos solved(sci-news.com)
2 points by deeths 10y ago|0 comments
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Six Studies Provide New Insights into Dwarf Planet Ceres(sci-news.com)
1 points by deeths 10y ago|0 comments
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by deeths 10y ago
Of course, the neutrino feels nearly as young as the moment it was born.
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The “Epidemic” that duped the Nazis(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
1 points by deeths 10y ago|0 comments
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by deeths 11y ago
Each similar search Google can avoid re-running saves them compute resources and therefore money. Google's as-you-type search suggestions encourage some significant percentage of users performing a query to accept a search suggestion (
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Court appoints 5 LotR experts to decide if comparison to Gollum is an insult(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by deeths 11y ago|1 comments
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SR-71 Blackbird used the stars to correct navigation(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by deeths 11y ago|1 comments
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Where are the big Kuiper belt objects?(planetary.org)
5 points by deeths 11y ago|0 comments
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by deeths 11y ago
Funny tweet on this by @Cryo ( https://twitter.com/Cryo/status/659369885991088129 ): IBM Board meetings notes: "We should buy the Cloud" "What?" "You know, the Cloud" "Why?" &
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Incredible backlit views of Pluto(solarsystem.nasa.gov)
2 points by deeths 11y ago|0 comments
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by deeths 12y ago
The structural and observational evidence seems to support the strong possibility that there are large voids (100s of meters or even kilometer-plus long voids) under the moon's surface. This seems ideal for future moon bases. If there
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by deeths 12y ago
Of course at one point they had no domain expertise with phones...
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by deeths 12y ago
What sort of information have you shared already?

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