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The engineering behind the largest nuclear fusion reactor.
The host of Practical Engineering gets a tour of the ITER megaproject from Laurent Patisson, one of the key leaders responsible for building the whole complex. ~ learn more
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Fiddlesticks.
“Fiddlestick is recorded from the fifteenth century, and Shakespeare used a proverb based on it in Henry IV: “the devil rides on a fiddle-stick”, meaning that a commotion has broken out…” ~ learn more
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4.5 billion years in 1 hour.
“We’ve scaled the complete timeline of our Earth’s life into our first animated movie! Every second shows about a million years of the planet’s evolution. Hop on a musical train ride and experience how long a billion years really is.” ~ learn […]
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Who profits most from America’s baffling healthcare system?
Another well-deserved jab from the Brits at The Economics over our nation’s kinda screwy approach to health. “Pharmaceutical firms and hospitals attract much of the public ire for the inflated costs. Much less attention is paid to a small number […]
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5 of the most famous typos in history.
One is the Wicked Bible: “In a reprint of the King James Bible by royal printers Robert Barker and Martin Lucas, the word “not” was egregiously left out of the Seventh Commandment, “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” which was mistakenly […]
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Hearing bad grammar results in physical signs of stress.
“The new study reveals a statistically significant reduction in HRV in response to grammatical violations. This reduction reflects the extent of the grammatical violations, suggesting that the more errors a person hears, the more regular their heartbeat becomes—a sign of […]
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Rubberducking.
“The name is a reference to a story in the book The Pragmatic Programmer in which a programmer would carry around a rubber duck and debug their code by forcing themselves to explain it, line by line, to the duck.” ~ learn more
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What would your street look like if it were Dutch?
Enter your address and it’ll spit out a version of your street fit for a cycling lifestyle. Don’t expect perfection, though. It’s just AI! ~ learn more
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Hacking flight credit expiration dates.
Thank you, good people of the internet. “Hey everyone, I asked a while back if there was a good way to extend flight credits past the “begin travel by” date, and I think I did it, so I want to […]