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


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{{Better Than News/January 4}}
== Beyond Plausible ==
{{Beyond Plausible/January 4}}
== In Other Words ==
{{In Other Words/January 4}}


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


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{{Are You Sure/January 4}}
== On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction ==
{{Selected anniversaries/January 4}}


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


{{Daily Favorites/January 4}}
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Latest revision as of 09:21, 1 August 2023


Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that physicist Max Born formulated the now-standard interpretation of the probability density function for ψ*ψ in the Schrödinger equation, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954?

• ... that the capacitor plague, a problem related to a higher-than-expected failure rate of non-solid aluminum electrolytic capacitors manufactured between 1999 and 2007, has been blamed on the mis-copying of a formula during industrial espionage?

• ... that physicist Erwin Schrödinger addressed the problems of genetics, looking at the phenomenon of life from the point of view of physics, in his book What Is Life?

• ... that the underlying principles of portable envy devices remain unclear, and there is currently no agreed-upon theory explaining why envy is the only emotion which can be migrated into electronic storage devices?

Topic of the Day

Spacecraft