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Bad Map Projection: Exterior Kansas

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25 June 2024 at 19:00

Although Kansas is widely thought to contain the geographic center of the contiguous 48 states, topologists now believe that it's actually their outer edge.

Situation

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23 June 2024 at 19:00

We're right under the flight path for the scheduled orbital launch, but don't worry--it's too cold out for the rockets to operate safely, so I'm sure they'll postpone.

Network Configuration

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20 June 2024 at 19:00

If you repeatedly rerun the development of technological civilization, it turns out that for some reason the only constant is that there is always a networking utility called 'netcat', though it does a different thing in each one.

Electric vs Gas

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18 June 2024 at 19:00

An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that's the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.

Pascal's Wager Triangle

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16 June 2024 at 19:00

In contrast to Pascal's Wager Triangle, Pascal's Triangle Wager argues that maybe God wants you to draw a triangle of numbers where each one is the sum of the two numbers above it, so you probably should, just in case.

1.2 Kilofives

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13 June 2024 at 19:00

'Oh yeah? Give me 50 milliscore reasons why I should stop.'

Broken Model

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11 June 2024 at 19:00

In addition to eating foxes, rabbits can eat grass. The grass also eats foxes. Our equations chart the contours of Fox Hell.

Magnet Fishing

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9 June 2024 at 19:00

The ten-way tie was judged a ten-way tie, so no one won the grand prize, a rare fishing monopole.

Unsolved Chemistry Problems

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6 June 2024 at 19:00

I'm an H⁺ denier, in that I refuse to consider loose protons to be real hydrogen, so I personally believe it stands for 'pretend'.

Fluid Speech

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4 June 2024 at 19:00

Thank you to linguist Gretchen McCulloch for teaching me about phonetic assimilation, and for teaching me that if you stand around in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to yourself, people will eventually ask if you're okay.

Cell Organelles

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2 June 2024 at 19:00

It's believed that Golgi was originally an independent organism who was eventually absorbed into our cells, where he began work on his Apparatus.

Modes of Transportation

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30 May 2024 at 19:00

My bold criticism might anger the hot air balloon people, which would be a real concern if any of them lived along a very narrow line directly upwind of me.

Complexity Analysis

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28 May 2024 at 19:00

PERPETUALLY OPTIMISTIC CASE: Early in the execution, our research group makes a breakthrough on proving P=NP.

Local Group

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26 May 2024 at 19:00

Cosmologists estimate the spaghetti strand to be about 200 septillion calories, though it could be higher depending on the nutritional value of dark matter.

Room Code

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23 May 2024 at 19:00

Sorry to make you memorize this random string of digits. If it helps, it can also double as a mnemonic for remembering your young relatives' birthdays, if they happened to have been born on February 5th, 2018.

Exponential Growth

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21 May 2024 at 19:00

Karpov's construction of a series of increasingly large rice cookers led to a protracted deadlock, but exponential growth won in the end.

Ocean Loop

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19 May 2024 at 19:00

I can't believe they wouldn't even let me hold a vote among the passengers about whether to try the loop.

Bloom Filter

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16 May 2024 at 19:00

Sometimes, you can tell Bloom filters are the wrong tool for the job, but when they're the right one you can never be sure.

Elementary Physics Paths

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14 May 2024 at 19:00

==COSMOLOGY==> 'Uhhh ... how sure are we that everything is made of these?'

Driving PSA

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12 May 2024 at 19:00

This PSA brought to you by several would-be assassins who tried to wave me in front of speeding cars in the last month and who will have to try harder next time.