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== Better Than News ==
== Better Than News ==


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== Beyond Plausible ==
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== In Other Words ==
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== Are You Sure ==
== Are You Sure ==


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== On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction ==
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== Topic of the Day ==
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Revision as of 06:24, 1 July 2023

Sven and Ole (21 September 2024) @ 9:19. Sheridan Street at First Avenue East.

Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

Cryogenics Laboratory in Leiden, 1919. Left to right: Paul Ehrenfest, Hendrik Lorentz, Niels Bohr, and Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (discoverer of superconductivity).

• ... that physicist and chemist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium"?

• ... that in 1660, Vincenzo Viviani and Giovanni Alfonso Borelli conducted an experiment to determine the speed of sound. Timing the difference between the seeing the flash and hearing the sound of a cannon shot at a distance, they calculated a value of 350 meters per second (m/s), considerably better than the previous value of 478 m/s obtained by Pierre Gassendi?


Topic of the Day

Invasions