January 10

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Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that the Union ironclad USS Cairo was the first ship ever to be sunk by a mine remotely detonated by hand?

• ... that a musical electroplating ensemble is a musical group which uses electroplating technology to generate music?

• ... that computer scientist Donald Knuth contributed to the development of the rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms and systematized formal mathematical techniques for it?

• ... that Project Diana marked the birth of radar astronomy later used to map Venus and other nearby planets, and was a necessary precursor to the US space program?

Topic of the Day

Medicine