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Lori Dorn via Laughing Squid: ‘Ridddle host Matt Bates explained the physical and metaphorical properties of dimensions from 0D to 7D, noting how degrees of freedom can shape geometry, perception, spacetime, and speculative models of reality….’

Lori Dorn via Laughing Squid: ‘Attractions Atlas explored the world’s first permanent Godzilla Museum at Nijigen no Mori Theme Park on Awaji Island, Japan, where Godzilla suits, props, production materials, dioramas, sculptures, and around 100 Toho monster

Lori Dorn via Laughing Squid: ‘The science channel Space Explainer explained ways that physics suggests time travel could work, including relativistic time dilation, gravitational time dilation, near-light-speed travel, wormholes, black holes, and closed…

Popkin via Boing Boing: ‘The Chichibu Chinsekikan opened in 1990 after Shōji Hayama found a stone whose fossilized shells resembled a human face….’

Jason Weisberger via Boing Boing: ‘The conditional payout would cost over a trillion dollars, and because it rewards a Republican win rather than a vote, it sidesteps vote-buying law….’

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Piotr Migdał via Quesma Blog: ‘You see a mushroom in a forest, take a photo, and pass it to an AI chat.…’

Via NASA Science: ‘This gallery displays a collection of 16 galactic images from Chandra and other telescopes.

Beth Mole via Ars Technica: ‘The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still secretly counting two measles deaths that were deleted from the agency’s public measles data—a deletion that occurred at the direct request of anti-vaccine Health Secreta…

Rhett Allain via WIRED: ‘Common sense is of no help in studying reality at the atomic scale….’

Keith Sawyer via Nautilus: ‘Reading obituaries can boost creativity by exposing you to distant ideas…’

Ian Millhiser via Vox: ‘It’s the latest chapter in an ongoing saga where Trump administration officials, federal courts eager to shield federal law enforcement officers from justice, and now Texas state officials all work together to ensure that ICE and o…

Carly Cassella via ScienceAlert: ‘The sugary unit developed by Amai was inspired by a naturally occurring fruit in the tropical rainforests of West and Central Africa, called the serendipity berry (Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii), which contains one of the sw…

Katrina Miller via The New York Times: ‘Hundreds of physicists have spent years scrutinizing the data from a detector deep underground, listening for the faintest whisper from a part of the universe that is dark and out of reach.

Eric Berger via Ars Technica: ‘There are, by various estimates, several trillion planets within what is known as the Local Group of galaxies—our closest galaxy neighbors, including our own Milky Way.

Emma Roth via The Verge: ‘‘Lake America’ now shows up across Apple and Google’s navigation apps….’

Curious Droid via YouTube: ‘To our knowledge, no one has been 2m/6ft from an exploding atomic bomb or nuclear weapon.

Ece Yildirim via Gizmodo: ‘”Lake America” it is….’

Spencer Kornhaber via The Atlantic: ‘A new nightmare of downward mobility is in the air: fear of betrayal by the attention economy.…’

Joe Oliveto via SlashGear: ‘One popular claim is that pointing a green laser at a Flock camera could disable the device.

Caroline Bologna via HuffPost: ‘Footage of President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump at the Freedom 250 Grand Prix in Washington, D.C. in August raised eyebrows online, with many social media users speculating about some seemingly tense moments…

David Frum via The Atlantic: ‘Lessons from fallen autocrats… Americans are not accustomed to learning lessons about democracy from Nigeria, Peru, or the Philippines.

Matthew Davies via AOL.com: ‘Claiming that he was only expressing his opinion, he cited what he claims are Trump’s “spasms and verbal glitches” — which, as he put it in the title of a recent video on his YouTube channel, are “getting worse”.

Janus Rose via The Verge: ‘The surveillance cameras have become another flashpoint of growing bipartisan anger against tech industry excess….’

Rob Beschizza via Boing Boing: ‘S301 loops around Sagittarius A* every 8.7 years, hitting 25,000 kilometers per second at its closest approach….’

Jason Weisberger via Boing Boing: ‘Usha Vance told him he could be VP or have a fourth child, and he says he got both….’

Mark Frauenfelder via Boing Boing: ‘The Bureau of Lost Culture podcast curated a list of 1960s counterculture films, from The Graduate to Eraserhead, tied to an interview with The Bad Trip author James Riley….’

Mark Frauenfelder via Boing Boing: ‘The tracker rates the threat from 1 to 5, working on the theory that people with access to private jets will flee first….’

Big Think via Big Think: ‘Ryan Haule outlined what Jung believed were the key characteristics of a complex: It has a sort of body with its own physiology so that it can upset the stomach, breathing, heart It has its own willpower and intentions so that it…

Devon Halliday via Devon Halliday: ‘I am so frustrated with contemporary literary fiction.

Dan Bilefsky via The New York Times: ‘A general during the Balkan wars of the 1990s, he was convicted in the killing of some 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica, Europe’s deadliest massacre since World War II….’

Arash Azizi via The Atlantic: ‘The office of Iran’s supreme leader has fallen quiet, fueling uncertainty in a country with decisions to make….’

Jamieson Webster via Cultured: ‘The fashion designer and host of the cult Fashion Neurosis podcast sat down with Jamieson Webster to talk about unwittingly transforming the method her ancestor invented.…’

Will Gottsegen via The Atlantic: ‘Today, some of the comedians who rode the initial wave have come to feel a little …sick of the shtick—and they’re skeptical about the function of political comedy in a world that’s arguably beyond parody.…’

George Chidi via The Guardian: ‘A series of moves by Donald Trump’s administration to sow doubt in the integrity of US elections have intensified concern among voting experts – and sparked hope among election deniers – that it could declare a national eme…

Jamelle Bouie via New York Times: ‘If the presidency is a job of crisis management, in which the principal task is to deal with an endless number of fires of various sizes and scope, then the most important thing a president can have is good information,…

Jamelle Bouie via The New York Times: ‘There are, to be sure, true believers within this administration, from the executive power fanatic Russell Vought to the far-right nativist Stephen Miller.

Jonathan O’Callaghan via MIT Technology Review: ‘Reflect Orbital’s giant beams will shine as bright as 10,000 full moons and scatter light over tens of kilometers….’

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Eli Stark-Elster via Smithsonian: ‘The idea that universes evolve like organisms sat on the fringes of theoretical physics for decades.

Tom Nichols via The Atlantic: ‘President Trump’s bumbled comments on North Korea sent a clear message to Iran: Nuclear deterrence, even with only a few bombs, works… He may also have blurted out classified information about North Korea.…’

Jake Currie via Nautilus: ‘Japan is home to tons of Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines (which you should be sure to visit if you ever find yourself there).

Jason Weisberger via Boing Boing: ‘Suffering unprecedented embarrassment on the international stage, morale issues are so deep that sailors are reputedly jumping overboard, but never fear: the United States Navy has a plan.

Isaiah Colbert via Gizmodo: ‘Once Bone Tomahawk kicks into its third act, it morphs into one of the most stark, frightening strings of events committed to celluloid.

Rumman Chowdhury via MIT Technology Review: ‘If AI systems are viewed as too advanced to control, the companies that build them can’t held liable for the harms they cause….’

Jason Weisberger via Boing Boing: ‘Sources say Hegseth’s job is in danger as the Iran war drags on and the Strait of Hormuz stays closed with gas near $4 a gallon….’

Jason Weisberger via Boing Boing: ‘Even Harp’s own brother Preston calls her relationship with the president unhealthy after becoming estranged over it….’

Holyn Thigpen via Atlas Obscura: ‘“Oldest” is not one definitive measurement but several, depending on what type of living thing you’re looking at.

Via New York Times Magazine: ‘The power grid relies on thousands of aging, hand-built transformers.