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Science fanboy.
Of course the new YouTube for iOS mini player has the close (stop, X) button on the opposite side of the iOS PiP player.

Designed by Google. 🤦‍♂️

I bet it’s how it is on Android.
May 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Deleting my posts about domains, because it does look like this dataset is the underlying source.

It’s obvious that they didn’t bother studying the data in any kind of detail, however.
www.census.gov/foreign-trad...

It might be based on the US Census Bureau data. "Svalbard, Jan Mayen Island" is in that dataset. As is "Heard and McDonald Islands" - with the penguin's seasonally adjusted imports and exports shown.
International Trade
www.census.gov
April 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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It's been almost a year since my now 3 yo experienced his first total solar eclipse. He talks about it every day and repeats the little skit I used to teach him what a solar eclipse is. Advanced topics can be explained to a 2 year old. Introducing the world of science early is important. 🧪🥽🍎👩‍🔬🧬⚛️☀️🌑
March 21, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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A map that centers on New Zealand, which I guess is reparation for all the maps that leave New Zealand off entirely.
February 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
De nieuws widget van de NOS is terug (naja, een herimplementatie).
February 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Post bijgewerkt over stakingen in Nederland tot en met 2023. Geen data over periode 1941-1944.
datagraver.com/stakingen/
February 16, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Concept: A computer with a camera that checks whether the devices that are plugged in, actually look like the thing they announce themselves as (e.g. no “rubber duckies”, unless they look like a keyboard).
January 24, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Klingons are portrayed as evolved super-predators with the instincts of an ambush hunter, yet the dishes we see them eating are live worms & blood puddings, making them closer to a burrowing insectivore like the garden mole, as confirmed by dentition.

In this 500 page essay, I will demonstrate....
February 28, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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Many people talk about the "Golden Age of Antibiotics", but I hadn't seen it visualized properly.

Just how many types of antibiotics were discovered during that time?

So, I visualized it myself!
December 23, 2024 at 10:09 AM
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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

Physicist: quantum mechanical mixing of the "employed" and "unemployed" states creates a "band gap" within which no jobs exist.
December 21, 2024 at 10:11 AM
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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

Me: That's an intron. It was removed during transcription.
December 21, 2024 at 3:37 AM
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It's really mind bending to think that a few centuries ago, people didn't think hot=big number and cold=small number.
Under his scale, water froze at 100 degrees and boiled at 0. Yes, it was originally inverted.

Shortly after his death in 1744 at the young age of 43, the scale was inverted so 0 was the freezing point of water, 100 was the boiling point.
December 20, 2024 at 6:15 AM
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Fun polio fact: it is asymptomatic in 70% of cases.

In 29.5% of the cases symptoms do appear, they are gastrointestinal distress, normal enterovirus stuff.

Polio only displays neurological symptoms in 0.5% of cases.

You don't remember polio, you only remember *longpolio*
December 14, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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It truly is a perfect simplified explanation.
December 15, 2024 at 6:31 AM
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Ever wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳
December 8, 2024 at 11:20 AM
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Notre Dame in Paris re-opens this wkd.
I'm a cathedral nerd. Here are some things that you might not notice about it – just from that one photo.
THREAD.

1. You can see straight down the nave to the apse. No medieval English cathedral has that.
December 2, 2024 at 9:59 AM
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Op de zeeën van Jupiter en Saturnus zal het navigeren tijdens het varen makkelijk zijn, omdat daar een overvloed aan manen is zodat men de meting van de lengtegraad op eenvoudige wijze kan uitvoeren, wat bij ons ondoenlijk is.
– Cosmotheoros, Christiaan Huygens
December 5, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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thinking of calling this "The Illusion Illusion"

(more examples below)
December 1, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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the reason this guy runs the internet is basically nobody else is even capable of doing "your shoes were so fugly I called the FBI" and have it be a factual statement
Wake up babe a new "I called your tailor" dropped
November 23, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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Optimist: The cup is half full

Pessimist: The cup is half empty

Deep sea marine biologist: I sent the cup into the abyss where it was crushed to a half it’s former size and now I have a tiny cup
November 24, 2024 at 8:12 AM
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💡De wereld is voorbij "peak child" (aantal kinderen <5 jaar)

Hans Rosling bedacht de term voor het moment in de wereldwijde demografische geschiedenis waarop het aantal kinderen stopte met toenemen.

@ourworldindata.org

ourworldindata.org/population-g...
November 24, 2024 at 6:56 AM
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gemiste kans. AH had naast de bak met bananen best wel een bak met duct tape kunnen zetten
November 23, 2024 at 11:05 AM