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A once in a century event, at least for jurisdictions observing the MM-DD-YY format ( see also ), today—rendered as 9/16/25 —illustrates...

Via MetaFilter , we get the chance to revisit our favourite seventeenth century admiral and polymath Prince Rupert of the Rhein through ...

Via Super Punch , we learn that the honest-to-goodness academic term for the kink that can sometimes occur in both naturally-occurring and m...

eight limes, no more : a list is a map, a compass, a prayer—via MetaFilter   ключевская сопка : volcanic eruption in Russia’s far east set...

Language Log directs our attention to the obituary and encomium of the recently departed satirist noted for his nimble lyrics and insuff...

edge of eternity : Poseidon’s Underworld’s cinematic vacation to the Grand Canyon  the open-hearted many and the broken-hearted-few : the v...

Spotted only a few days ago by astronomers in Chile at an associate observatory under the auspices of the international Asteroid-Terrestr...

the chairs of dr who : the quest to identify as much seating as possible from the series’ first great age from 1963 to 1989—via Pasa Bon! ...

Realising I had taken for granted knowing what the unit of measurement was, or what exactly it was gauging, we appreciated this introd...

Having previously looked at other visual language compliers expressed through artistic elements and other than the usual strings of fu...

ν octantis : astronomers discover a tight binary star system with a lone exoplanet wedged in the middle   {sum free sets} : Cambridge grad...

kanzlermehrheit : Bundestag selects Friedrich Merz chancellor after secure a majority in the second round of voting, averting a constitution...

america’s war : a special report from the Verge for the fiftieth anniversary of the Fall of Saigon    leaflet : an Art Nouveau study of bo...

domestic box office : in response to escalating tariffs, China is curtailing the number of American films screened in the country   redeplo...

Having come to a similar epiphany at a point in life I considered fairly late and doubting maturity—but perhaps this sort of realisation...

us agency for global media : Voice of America director files lawsuit over ordered closure —a federal judge issues a temporary stay    peck...

contraception begins at erection : Mississippi lawmaker has introduced a bill called ‘contraception begins at erection’ outlawing male mastu...

In recreational and trivial mathematics , a pandigital number is value that uses its digits at least once (usually without redundancy), th...

Via Clive Thompson’s latest Link Fest , we are introduced to another chaotic twin of π called ϖ —from the above script variant of pi, ...

Numerically speaking, the coming year has some compelling arithmetic properties —albeit some are classified as amusing puzzlers without math...