Articles by lisper
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Asbestos is a bigger problem than we thought [video] (youtube.com)

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Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video] (youtube.com)

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Quantum observers can communicate across multiverse branches (arxiv.org)

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Slate Auto – The Customizable EV That Works for You (slate.auto)

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Frame Experiments [video] (youtube.com)

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Zong Massacre (wikipedia.org)

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North America's Elevator Problem [video] (youtube.com)

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What Being a Billionire Looks Like [video] (youtube.com)

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Peter Gutmann – Why Quantum Cryptanalysis Is Bollocks [video] (youtube.com)

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AI Feynman: A physics-inspired method for symbolic regression (2020) (science.org)

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The Book: The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding Civilization (hungryminds.com)

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In one of the driest places on Earth, recurrent floods have become deadlier (washingtonpost.com)

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A Comprehensive Guide to How 2 and 4 Stroke Engines Work and Differ [video] (youtube.com)

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Why Don't Jet Engines Melt? [video] (youtube.com)

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Mother describes the dark side of Apple's Family Sharing feature (9to5mac.com)

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Deepfake Challenge 2025 AI Videos That Fool Everyone [video] (youtube.com)

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Climbing Mount Everest – Summit Day [video] (youtube.com)

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The FCC has leaked the schematics for the iPhone 16e (fccid.io)

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Mamluk (wikipedia.org)

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Fake Oxford (slate.com)

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How the Golden Gate Bridge Works [video] (youtube.com)

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Starship will soon fly over towns and cities, but will dodge the biggest ones (arstechnica.com)

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PYREX vs. pyrex: What's the difference? (corning.com)

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NASA discovers 'clearest sign of life that we've ever found on Mars' (washingtonpost.com)

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Never-aired episode of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' (1969) [video] (madlyodd.com)

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Jetson One Personal Electric Aerial Vehicle (jetson.com)

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Centralia Mine Fire (wikipedia.org)

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Darvaza Gas Crater (wikipedia.org)

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Ehrenfest paradox: the circumference of a relativistic rotating disk is <2πr (wikipedia.org)

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The Block Stacking Problem (pitt.edu)

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Worst. Puzzle. Ever. (2009) (rongarret.info)

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The Elements by Tom Lehrer (Aristotle's Version) (tomlehrersongs.com)

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U.S. passport drops to lowest ranking yet on global index (washingtonpost.com)

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Hertz AI Scanner Charges $350 for Tiny 'Dings' on Rental Car (thedrive.com)

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A mammoth tusk boomerang from Poland is 40k years old (arstechnica.com)

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Causation as Folk Science (2003) [pdf] (pitt.edu)

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A Simple Correspondence Between Stochastic Processes and Quantum Systems [video] (youtube.com)

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16B Apple, Facebook, Google and Other Passwords Leaked (forbes.com/sites/daveywinder)

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Gettier Problem (wikipedia.org)

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How AI Is Ruining the Electric Grid [video] (youtube.com)

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Humans Need Not Apply (2015) [video] (youtube.com)

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Airlines Don't Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS (404media.co)

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Apollo Docking Sequence – Connecting the Command Module to the LEM [video] (youtube.com)

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LLM-based programming tool figures out how to improve its own code (twitter.com/pentagoniac)

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The Stochastic-Quantum Correspondence (2023) (inspirehep.net)

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Everel single-blade propeller [1938, 2018] (aopa.org)

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Loader's Number (googology.fandom.com)

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Cardiff Giant (wikipedia.org)

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Programs with Common Sense by John McCarthy (1959) [pdf] (stanford.edu)

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Chunking Attacks on Tarsnap (and Others) (daemonology.net)

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Frink (frinklang.org)

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Cognitive security is now as important as basic literacy (twitter.com/tyleralterman)

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"Propositions as Types" by Philip Wadler [video] (youtube.com)

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Gene Hackman, his wife and their dog all found dead in New Mexico home (salon.com)

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Kayaker briefly swallowed by humpback whale in incident caught on video (washingtonpost.com)

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What's Inside the Worst EBike? Reevo Teardown [video] (youtube.com)

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Iceberg A-23A could hit South Georgia Island, home to penguins, seabirds (washingtonpost.com)

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Origins of the Common Fork (leitesculinaria.com)

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A History of Western Eating Utensils, from the Fork to the Spork (smithsonianmag.com)

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The History of Chopsticks (smithsonianmag.com)

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Mandaeans (wikipedia.org)

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Scientists Discover Traces of Salt Water and Amino Acids on Asteroid Bennu (smithsonianmag.com)

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I am (not) a failure: Lessons learned from six failed startup attempts (rongarret.info)

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Fire destroys Starship on its seventh test flight, raining debris from space (arstechnica.com)

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These Are the Worst Cities in the World to Live in [video] (youtube.com)

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I Am (Not) a Failure: Lessons Learned from Six (and a Half) Failed Startups (rongarret.info)

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Great Bakersfield Dust Storm of 1977 (wikipedia.org)

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The southern California fire event was accurately forecast on Jan 4 (weatherwest.com)

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Can Thermodynamics Resolve the Measurement Problem? (2023) (quantumfrontiers.com)

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How many real numbers exist? New proof moves closer to an answer (2021) (quantamagazine.org)

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South Korea plane crash kills nearly all aboard Jeju Air flight 2216 (washingtonpost.com)

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First Principles Numerical Demonstration of Emergent Decoherent Histories (aps.org)

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Can Classical Worlds Emerge from Parallel Quantum Universes? (aps.org)

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Propositions as Types (acm.org)

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Santa's instrument approach charts (2015) (fearoflanding.com)

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Official Jeppeson North Pole instrument approach plate [pdf] (aerosavvy.com)

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Coffee Badging (wikipedia.org)

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23andMe's failure: A warning for genetic data privacy (thehill.com)

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Found in the wild: the first unkillable UEFI bootkit for Linux (arstechnica.com)

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Man suffers chemical burn that lasted months after squeezing limes (arstechnica.com)

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A Proof of the Collatz Conjecture (2021) [pdf] (arxiv.org)

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All Hail the Return of Upgradeable Storage Mac Mini 2024 Teardown (ifixit.com)

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Apple drops soldered storage for 2024 Mac Mini (theregister.com)

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The Final Experiment – Antarctica (the-final-experiment.com)

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The AI Scientist: Towards Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery (github.com/sakanaai)

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Are Boeing's problems beyond fixable? (arstechnica.com)

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Connecting Solar to the Grid Is Harder Than You Think [video] (youtube.com)

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Adam Savage Reacts to Real Buzz Lightyear Robot [video] (youtube.com)

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The Incredible Logistics of Grocery Stores [2021] [video] (youtube.com)

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The Planck scale: Is there a fundamental limit to space and time? [video] (youtube.com)

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Everything We Teach at Y Combinator in 10 Minutes [video] (youtube.com)

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American Airlines Seeks $94M in Skiplagging Travel Hack Lawsuit (aviationa2z.com)

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Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices (arstechnica.com)

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Filming Thermite Reactions [video] (youtube.com)

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Thousands of Linux systems infected by stealthy malware since 2021 (arstechnica.com)

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The secret economics of Google Street View [video] (youtube.com)

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Exposing myths about in-office work (thehill.com)

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How to Land on the Moon – Project Apollo Retro Tech [video] [1979] (youtube.com)

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Building a reliable asynchronous arbiter is impossible (computationstructures.org)

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Alan Turing’s 1950 manual for the Mark I electronic computer [pdf] (computerhistory.org)