January 15

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Their brands were still on fire and their hooves were made of steel...

Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

<gallery> File:Me and My Vulture - lyrics.jpg|link=Me and My Vulture|"Me and My Vulture" is a song non-Euclidean singer-songwriter Sly Harrowed Innards for his 1970 album Poet Hint?

File:Sister Doll.jpg|link=Sister Doll|Sister Doll is an American comedy fantasy film starring Margot Robbie and Whoopi Goldberg.

File:Octaman of Arabia.jpg|link=Octaman of Arabia|Octaman of Arabia is an epic biographical adventure monster film directed by David Lean and Harry Essex.

File:The P-Value Man.jpg|link=The P-Value Man|The P-Value Man is a 1997 statistical mathematics drama film starring Tom Petty and David Brin.

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In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that Johannes Schöner was a pioneer in the history of globe making, and that he played a significant role in the events leading up to the publication of Copernicus' De revolutionibus in 1543?

• ... that a Kovalevskaya top is a symmetric top in which two moments of inertia are equal, the third is half as large, and the center of gravity is located in the plane perpendicular to the symmetry axis (parallel to the plane of the two equal points)?

• ... that the Superimposed Fraunhofer is a German postage stamp misprint in which the image of Joseph von Fraunhofer appears superimposed on the color spectrum bar, and that the cause of the misprint is thought to originate in as as-yet unidentified crime against light?

• ... that although greedy coloring algorithms do not, in general, use the minimum number of colors possible, they have been used to prove other results about colorings?

Topic of the Day

Frank Sinatra