Storage Tanks

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19. Srpen 2024 v 06:00

We're considering installing a pressurization system to keep the tanks at constant pressure solely to deter them.

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Ferris Wheels
16. Srpen 2024 v 06:00

Ferris Wheels

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16. Srpen 2024 v 06:00

They left the belt drive in place but switched which wheel was powered, so people could choose between a regular ride, a long ride, and a REALLY long ride.

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Helium Synthesis
14. Srpen 2024 v 06:00

Helium Synthesis

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14. Srpen 2024 v 06:00

Our lawyers were worried because it turns out the company inherits its debt from the parent universe, but luckily cosmic inflation reduced it to nearly zero.

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Celestial Event
12. Srpen 2024 v 06:00

Celestial Event

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12. Srpen 2024 v 06:00

If we can get a brood of 13-year cicadas going, we might have a chance at making this happen before the oceans evaporate under the expanding sun.

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University Age
5. Srpen 2024 v 06:00

University Age

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5. Srpen 2024 v 06:00

This only makes it more urgent that we adopt my roadmap for the next 10 years, which should put us solidly in the lead.

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Matter
2. Srpen 2024 v 06:00

Matter

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2. Srpen 2024 v 06:00

He was the first person to land a 900, which is especially impressive because pulling off a half-integer spin requires obeying Fermi-Dirac statistics.

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Exam Numbers
31. Červenec 2024 v 06:00

Exam Numbers

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31. Červenec 2024 v 06:00

Calligraphy exam: Write down the number 37, spelled out, nicely.

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Chili Tornado Quake
29. Červenec 2024 v 06:00

Chili Tornado Quake

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29. Červenec 2024 v 06:00

Buildings constructed from softer materials were damaged by chili pepper impacts to the storm's high Richter-Fujita-Scoville-Mohs hardness rating.

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Olympic Sports
26. Červenec 2024 v 06:00

Olympic Sports

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26. Červenec 2024 v 06:00

Thankfully for everyone involved, the Winter Olympics officials spotted me and managed to stop me before I got to the ski jump.

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Network Configuration
21. Červen 2024 v 06:00

Network Configuration

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21. Červen 2024 v 06:00

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.

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Electric vs Gas
19. Červen 2024 v 06:00

Electric vs Gas

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19. Červen 2024 v 06:00

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

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Pascal's Wager Triangle
17. Červen 2024 v 06:00

Pascal's Wager Triangle

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17. Červen 2024 v 06:00

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.

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1.2 Kilofives
14. Červen 2024 v 06:00

1.2 Kilofives

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14. Červen 2024 v 06:00

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

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Magnet Fishing
10. Červen 2024 v 06:00

Magnet Fishing

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10. Červen 2024 v 06:00

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

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Unsolved Chemistry Problems
7. Červen 2024 v 06:00

Unsolved Chemistry Problems

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7. Červen 2024 v 06:00

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'.

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Fluid Speech
5. Červen 2024 v 06:00

Fluid Speech

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5. Červen 2024 v 06:00

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.

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Cell Organelles
3. Červen 2024 v 06:00

Cell Organelles

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3. Červen 2024 v 06:00

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

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Modes of Transportation
31. Květen 2024 v 06:00

Modes of Transportation

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31. Květen 2024 v 06:00

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.

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Complexity Analysis
29. Květen 2024 v 06:00

Complexity Analysis

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29. Květen 2024 v 06:00

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

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Local Group
27. Květen 2024 v 06:00

Local Group

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27. Květen 2024 v 06:00

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

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Room Code
24. Květen 2024 v 06:00

Room Code

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24. Květen 2024 v 06:00

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.

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Bloom Filter
17. Květen 2024 v 06:00

Bloom Filter

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17. Květen 2024 v 06:00

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.

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Elementary Physics Paths
15. Květen 2024 v 06:00

Elementary Physics Paths

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15. Květen 2024 v 06:00

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

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Driving PSA
13. Květen 2024 v 06:00

Driving PSA

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13. Květen 2024 v 06:00

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.

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Chasing
10. Květen 2024 v 06:00

Chasing

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10. Květen 2024 v 06:00

Certain hybrid events can only happen in certain locations where all the conditions are present; chasers flock to the area in and around Kansas known as tumbleweed-colliding-with-possum alley.

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Google Solar Cycle
8. Květen 2024 v 06:00

Google Solar Cycle

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8. Květen 2024 v 06:00

From Google Trends, it looks like the lag between people Googling cocktail recipes and 'hangover cure' is 14 hours.

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Good and Bad Ideas
6. Květen 2024 v 06:00

Good and Bad Ideas

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6. Květen 2024 v 06:00

While it seemed like a fun prank at the time, I realize my prank fire extinguishers full of leaded gasoline were a mistake.

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Software Testing Day
3. Květen 2024 v 06:00

Software Testing Day

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3. Květen 2024 v 06:00

The company tried to document how often employees were celebrating Software Testing Day, but their recordkeeping system kept mysteriously crashing.

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Alphabetical Cartogram
1. Květen 2024 v 06:00

Alphabetical Cartogram

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Doppler Effect
29. Duben 2024 v 06:00

Doppler Effect

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29. Duben 2024 v 06:00

The Doppler effect is a mysterious wavelength-shifting phenomenon which seems to primarily affect sirens, which is why the 🚨 emoji is red.

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Earth Formation Site
26. Duben 2024 v 06:00

Earth Formation Site

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26. Duben 2024 v 06:00

It's not far from the sign marking the exact latitude and longitude of the Earth's core.

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Pendulum Types
24. Duben 2024 v 06:00

Pendulum Types

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24. Duben 2024 v 06:00

The creepy fingers that grow from a vibrating cornstarch-water mix can be modeled as a chain of inverted vertical pendulums (DOI:10.1039/c4sm00265b) and are believed to be the fingers of Maxwell's Demon trying to push through into our universe.

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Pub Trivia
19. Duben 2024 v 06:00

Pub Trivia

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19. Duben 2024 v 06:00

Bonus question: Where is London located? (a) The British Isles (b) Great Britain and Northern Ireland (c) The UK (d) Europe (or 'the EU') (e) Greater London

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Eclipse Path Maps
17. Duben 2024 v 06:00

Eclipse Path Maps

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17. Duben 2024 v 06:00

Okay, this eclipse will only be visible from the Arctic in February 2063, when the sun is below the horizon, BUT if we get lucky and a gigantic chasm opens in the Earth in just the right spot...

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Survey Marker
15. Duben 2024 v 06:00

Survey Marker

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15. Duben 2024 v 06:00

Fun fact: The standard North American NAD83 coordinate system is misaligned from the actual Earth, off-center by about 7 feet. Someone knows where I am, and I'm in the wrong place.

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Sitting in a Tree
12. Duben 2024 v 06:00

Sitting in a Tree

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12. Duben 2024 v 06:00

First comes blood / Then we perish / Then comes Death in his Eternity Carriage.

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Physics vs. Magic
8. Březen 2024 v 06:00

Physics vs. Magic

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8. Březen 2024 v 06:00

'At the stroke of midnight, your brother will be hurtling sideways at an altitude of 150 meters' is a regular physics prediction about your nonmagical trebuchet, whereas 'you are cursed to build a brother-launching trebuchet' falls out of the Lagrangian.

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Earth/Venus Venn Diagram
6. Březen 2024 v 06:00

Earth/Venus Venn Diagram

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6. Březen 2024 v 06:00

Actually, the fact that Mars is still orbiting safely over here means that it was technically an *Euler* apocalypse, not a Venn one.

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Ice Core
4. Březen 2024 v 06:00

Ice Core

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4. Březen 2024 v 06:00

If you find an ash deposition layer from a year in which an eruption destroyed an island that had Camellia sinensis growing on it, you can make a Gone Island Ice_τ.

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Geographic Qualifiers
1. Březen 2024 v 06:00

Geographic Qualifiers

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1. Březen 2024 v 06:00

'Thank you for the loveliest evening I've ever had...' [normal] '...east of the Mississippi.' [instant intrigue!]

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Call My Cell
28. Únor 2024 v 06:00

Call My Cell

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28. Únor 2024 v 06:00

'Hey, can you call my cell?' '...I'm trying, but it says this number is blocked?' 'Ok, thanks, just checking.'

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Goodhart's Law
26. Únor 2024 v 06:00

Goodhart's Law

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26. Únor 2024 v 06:00

[later] I'm pleased to report we're now identifying and replacing hundreds of outdated metrics per hour.

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Orbital Argument
23. Únor 2024 v 06:00

Orbital Argument

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23. Únor 2024 v 06:00

"Some people say light is waves, and some say it's particles, so I bet light is some in-between thing that's both wave and particle depending on how you look at it. Am I right?" "YES, BUT YOU SHOULDN'T BE!"

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Light Leap Years
21. Únor 2024 v 06:00

Light Leap Years

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21. Únor 2024 v 06:00

When Pope Gregory XIII briefly shortened the light-year in 1582, it led to navigational chaos and the loss of several Papal starships.

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Crossword Constructors
19. Únor 2024 v 06:00

Crossword Constructors

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19. Únor 2024 v 06:00

Also, we would really appreciate it if you could prominently refer to it as an 'eHit'.

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Treasure Chests
16. Únor 2024 v 06:00

Treasure Chests

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16. Únor 2024 v 06:00

[earlier] "Your vintage-style handmade chest business is struggling. But I have a plan."

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Research Account
14. Únor 2024 v 06:00

Research Account

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14. Únor 2024 v 06:00

Focus of your research: EXTREME PETTINESS AND UNWILLINGNESS TO LET ANYTHING GO

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Sphere Tastiness
12. Únor 2024 v 06:00

Sphere Tastiness

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12. Únor 2024 v 06:00

Baseballs do present a challenge to this theory, but I'm convinced we just haven't found the right seasoning.

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