science with slightly more dimensional analysis

Put simply, the Earth is approximately spherical, and anything trying to tell you it is literally shaped like a potato is wrong, because the potato shape is just a map of the Earth’s gravitatio...

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cenchempics : > STARRY EYED  >  > Just in time for the Jewish High Holidays comes a Star of David > catenane. The molecule, which was synthesized by chemists David A....

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Hi! So, unbelievably, over the last two days, the gravity potato post has garnered an extraordinary amount of notes, and now this little blog has significantly more followers than we ever envisio...

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Bro I'm not entirely sure what you're even arguing. The whole point of the original post is to clarify that the geoid and the physical shape of the planet earth are different things. Not sure wha...

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Hi there. It seems you've got completely the wrong end of the stick. I was not trying to contradict anything, because the simple fact is that the Earth is not lumpy. Presenting a geoid as an exac...

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Good question. The variation in acceleration due to gravity on the earth's surface is a mere 0.7%, so one's weight would vary by an imperceptible amount (unless you're actually measuring it with ...

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The 2011 Gravity Potato, known as EIGEN-6C The 2005 Gravity Potato A lot of people have been mislead by a post that talks about the “lumpy” Earth, and unfortunately it seems that people ...

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I was asked whether ebooks cause more eye strain than books. Short answer yes. Long answer is … the rest of this post. I mean really it’s these kinds of seemingly innocuous questions that ca...

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Bug’s Penis Makes Loudest Animal Sound | Science | WIRED : drhoz : > The male lesser water boatman > , aka Micronecta > scholtzi, can create mating calls as loud as 99.2 d...

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This is fluorine . And this is fluorene . Chemists are assholes. The latter is named because it fluoresceses, and the former named after the mineral fluorite from which fluorine is primaril...

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earth-phenomenon : > Pamukkale, 19 km (12 miles) north of Denizli, is Turkey’s > foremost mineral-bath spa because of its natural beauty: hot > calcium-laden waters spri...

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jtotheizzoe : > IF THE MOON WERE ONLY 1 PIXEL ON YOUR SCREEN, HOW BIG WOULD THE REST > OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM BE?  >  > Just CLICK THIS LINK > , I > beg you, and pr...

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Regular sand with a hydrophobic coating, creating the exciting magic sand! By exposing the (excitingly dyed) sand grains to trimethylsilanol vapour, the reaction causes the sand grains to be co...

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scienceyoucanlove : > “GOB-SMACKINGLY HUGE” JELLYFISH WASHES UP IN AUSTRALIA  >  > Posted by Sonia Harmon  >  > A REGULAR DAY AT THE BEACH LED TO A SURPRISING SCIE...

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distant-traveller : > NEOWISE SPIES ITS FIRST COMET  >  >>  NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer >>  (NEOWISE) spacecraft has spotted a never-bef...

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(x ) FOR ALL YOU BIOCHEMISTS - this should help you out in your next assignment. Bases read from the inside circle to the outside (i.e. the middle is the 5’ end).  FOR ALL YOU NON-BIOCHEMI...

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qdork : > Vetches and passion flowers have modified some of their leaves and > converted them into tendrils. These grope around in space until they > touch the stem of...

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oceansoftheworld : > This is a beautiful PORTUGUESE MAN-OF-WAR (Physalia physalis). > Anyone unfamiliar with the biology of the venomous Portuguese > man-of-war would likely...

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crookedindifference : > HAPPY 27TH ANNNIVERSARY, SUPERNOVA 1987A! >  (x ) (x )

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iqewqewqewseyou : > Trying to figure out what an organism looks like from > its fossilized remains seems really really hard, so you can forgive > the paleontologists who...

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