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What’s a chuck?
Wikipedia: “A chuck is a specialized type of clamp used to hold an object with radial symmetry, especially a cylinder.” | learn more
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Is it true the Eiffel Tower is taller in the summer?
Yes, “[and] the tower is likely to lean due to the unequal heating effect on the sunny and shady sides.” | learn more
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How I raised queen bees.
From this video, I learned that matching a queen to a hive is a game of trial & error. | learn more
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PFA: An acronym you’ll need to google to understand.
Someone used this in an email to a friend and all of us were stumped. | learn more
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A visual network of 300 blogs.
“I thought it might be interesting to try to map the network that emerges from blogs linking to one another. … I started with astralcodexten.substack.com and continued following links as they were mentioned.” | learn more
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The world’s biggest Hummer.
“[It] is the length of a humpback whale, as wide as three Tesla Model 3s side-by-side, and as tall as three Shaq’s standing on top of each other.” | learn more
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Seizing $7 billion worth of assets on the tiny island of Jersey.
And a $120 million French Chateau. This article is surprisingly interesting despite its being published on a website called Celebrity Net Worth. | learn more
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Persepolis
“Twenty-five hundred years ago, in what is now southern Iran, stood an ancient city of awe-inspiring beauty.” | learn more
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Why is flaking so widespread in San Francisco?
Having never lived in SF, I have little direct experience with this problem. This makes me feel quite grateful for my midwestern cultural upbringing. | learn more
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America in 1950: U.S. releases detailed census data after 72-year waiting period.
“What makes the 1950 Census so significant is that it’s the first one that details an America on the heels of World War II, at the start of the baby boom and in full postwar economic swing a decade after […]