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Our physics intuitions tend to be Aristotelian: that every objects tries to find its "natural" place and motion. But there are various things that can affect the Earth's rotation: Tidal drag - by far, the most significant Drag by the solar wind on the Earth's magnetosphere Electromagnetic...

I'd have to have more specific references. I'm sure that I can interpret the abstracts of paywalled ones. Did any of the papers describe any of the raw materials that were used in the experiments described in those papers? Were they RNA nucleotides? (phosphate) - (ribose) - (nucleobase) Or...

ChatGPT seems to me to be hopelessly glib, talking a lot but not saying very much.

...py2 = 1 Inner circle: (px-cx)2 + (py-cy)2 = py2 Tangent condition: {-py, px} . eps2 . {-(py-cy), (px-cx)} = 0 where eps2 is the 2D antisymmetric symbol {{0,1},{-1,0}}. The solution: px = 2*cx/(1+cx2) py = (1-cx2)/(1+cx2) cy = (1/2)*(1-cx2) The center of the inner circle is thus on a...

...Zeta Function Zeros -- from Wolfram MathWorld The trivial ones are for s = -2, -4, -6, -8, -10, ... The nontrivial ones have form s = sr + i*si, where 0 < sr < 1. The Riemann hypothesis states that all such zeros have sr = 1/2. Riemann hypothesis - Riemann Hypothesis -- from Wolfram...

Hardtack - dense biscuits / crackers - Salt pork - Corned beef - salt beef These were common rations for armies and navies in the 17th, 18th, & 19th cys. Another modern technique is Canning - sealing food in airtight containers like metal cans. The first canning was done in 1809, for...

Making the Senate proportional by population, like the House, is an interesting exercise. For that, I decided to use the Huntington-Hill highest-averages algorithm as my baseline one. The overall number of Senators is twice the number of states, but each state may have more or fewer Senators...

The tables did not get fixed after the move from vBulletin to XenForo. I will fix them. List of electoral systems by country Polity Dist List L/D Germany 299 299 1 New Zealand 72 120 1.67 Thailand 350 150 0.43 Lesotho 80 40 0.5 Bolivia 70 60 0.86 Scotland...

For position, the barycenter of the Solar System. For direction, quasars, because they are the farthest objects that can be observed without much difficulty. The one with the highest apparent visual luminosity, 3C 273, has visual magnitude +12.9. Others are not quite as bright in visible light...

Florida officials investigate voters who signed abortion ballot initiative | Florida | The Guardian - "Activists say investigation by agency set up by Ron DeSantis into whether fraud took place is voter intimidation"

Of solutions known to me, the only self-inverses are: range(1) = {1}, range(2) = {1,2}, and {2,3,4,6}

...properly on the previous page, likely due to Derec's attachment, but it didn't render properly on this page. Power-law decline: f(k) = (1-u) * u^k for some parameter u and number k from 0 on up. Information measure: I = - log(1-u) - u/(1-u)*log(u) Effective number (square measure)...

...the main allocation or apportionment algorithm, because it's what's used for the House. It's highest-averages with a divisor function D(S) = sqrt(S*(S+1)) for S seats. It's close to Sainte-Laguë, S+1/2. I used the 2020 US Census data for all the present states, omitting DC and Puerto Rico...

French PM Barnier needs 4 types of ministers if he’s going to survive – POLITICO - "Newly appointed French leader faces an uphill battle to form a government with a fragmented parliament, an unhappy left wing, and a far right that wields key influence." The Left won big, and self-styled...

Trump says he will tap Musk to lead government efficiency commission if elected | Reuters Trump says he'd create government efficiency commission led by Elon Musk | AP News

Pro-Trump podcaster Dave Rubin sparks outerage over Taylor Swift comment After mentioning Elon Musk's tweet about giving Taylor Swift a child, then My first thought was Сколько они ему заплатили?

Taylor Swift got this response: Elon Musk on X: "Fine Taylor … you win … I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life" / X Is he offering some child for her to adopt? Or does he want to make her pregnant? Elon Musk’s daughter blasts his ‘heinous incel nonsense’ as he offers Taylor...

Taylor Swift's endorsement of Kamala Harris: Taylor Swift | Like many of you, I watched the debate tonight. ... | Instagram

Most likely a few percent. This principle could be extended to replace minimum wages with maximum wages much less than the current minimum wage, maximum wages pegged to (let's say) 10% or even 1% of GDP. Consumers will LOVE that, I'm sure, because 0% of consumers' income comes from wages, right?

Environmental impacts: So to help make our planet more livable, eat lower on the food chain, with vegetarian fake meats, fake milks, and fake cheeses.