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


{{Better Than News/June 30}}
{{Better Than News/June 30}}
== Beyond Plausible ==
{{Beyond Plausible/June 30}}
== In Other Words ==
{{In Other Words/June 30}}


== Are You Sure ==
== Are You Sure ==


{{Are You Sure/June 30}}
{{Are You Sure/June 30}}
== On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction ==
{{Selected anniversaries/June 30}}


== Topic of the Day ==
== Topic of the Day ==


{{Daily Favorites/June 30}}
{{Daily Favorites/June 30}}

Revision as of 06:45, 23 February 2023


Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

The Tunguska Event Preservation Society launches fundraiser to simulate the 1927 Tunguska expedition.

... that the Tunguska event was a massive explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia, on the morning of June 30, 1908; that the explosion flattened an estimated 80 million trees over an area of 2,150 km2 (830 sq mi) of forest; that eyewitness reports suggest that at least three people may have died in the event; and that the explosion is generally attributed to the air burst of a stony meteoroid about 100 metres (330 feet) in size?

... that Albert Einstein's article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" (published in Annalen der Physik) introduced special relativity?

... that mathematician William Oughtred invented the slide rule in 1622?

Topic of the Day

Philip K. Dick