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Subduction Retrieval

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10 March 2026 at 19:00

Aww, the oceanic crust and the continental crust are getting married!

Home Remedies

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8 March 2026 at 19:00

As always, you are permitted to call one person for guidance, but that person must be a grandparent.

Bazookasaurus

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5 March 2026 at 19:00

In contrast to the deep booming sound associated with the cannon in pop culture depictions, recent studies show it actually made more of a 'toot toot!' noise.

Solar Warning

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3 March 2026 at 19:00

This replaces the previous solar activity watch, which was issued last month when the sun took off its sunglasses.

Electric Vehicles

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1 March 2026 at 19:00

Now that I've finally gotten an electric vehicle, I'm never going back to an acoustic one.

Dental Formulas

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26 February 2026 at 19:00

I mean, half of these are undefined. And your multiplication dots are too low; they look like decimal points.

Little Red Dots

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24 February 2026 at 19:00

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

Amperage

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22 February 2026 at 19:00

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

Eliminating the Impossible

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19 February 2026 at 19:00

'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

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17 February 2026 at 19:00

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

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15 February 2026 at 19:00

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

Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination

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12 February 2026 at 19:00

'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.

Installation

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10 February 2026 at 19:00

Do YOU remember the skylight being this big?

Carbon Dating

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8 February 2026 at 19:00

This dating is corroborated by the presence of stone tools at the site, rather than earlier and less effective helium ones.

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

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5 February 2026 at 19:00

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

Binary Star

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3 February 2026 at 19:00

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

Groundhog Day Meaning

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1 February 2026 at 19:00

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

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29 January 2026 at 19:00

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

Chemical Formula

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27 January 2026 at 19:00

Some of the atoms in the molecule are very weakly bound.

Early Arthropods

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25 January 2026 at 19:00

'Ugh, I'm never going to be like spiders. My descendants will all just be normal arthropods who mind their own busines and don't do anything weird.' --The ancestor of a bunch of eusocial insects