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== Better Than News ==
 
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== Beyond Plausible ==
 
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== In Other Words ==
 
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== Are You Sure ==
 
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== Topic of the Day ==
 
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Latest revision as of 16:30, 17 July 2023

Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that Francesco Maria Grimaldi was the first to make accurate observations on the diffraction of light (although by some accounts Leonardo da Vinci had earlier noted it), and coined the word 'diffraction'?

• ... that John von Neumann's last work, an unfinished manuscript written while in the hospital, was later published in book form as The Computer and the Brain?

• ... that the carnivorous dirigible (Dirigible horribilis) is a grazing ruminant airship, neither carnivorous nor horrible?

Topic of the Day

Batman