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Bad Cable May Have Caused Faster-Than-Light... →
(February 22, 2012)
According to sources familiar with the experiment, the 60 nanoseconds discrepancy appears to come from a bad connection between a fiber optic cable that connects to the GPS receiver used to correct the timing of the neutrinos’ flight and an electronic card in a computer. After tightening the connection and then measuring the time it takes data to travel the length of the...
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The Open Mind rebroadcasts in 1992 a discussion held on June 12, 1963 between host Richard Heffner and guests James Farmer, Malcolm X, Alan Morrison, and Wyatt Tee Walker.
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As an Orioles fan, you pretty much just wait for bad news and then when it...
– Stacey, a commenter replying to this article on Fangraphs.
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Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?
– Sigmund Freud (via psych-quotes)
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Underpaid Genius: Why Bicyclists Should Be Able To... →
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France is experimenting with allowing bicyclists to treat red lights and stop signs as if they are ‘yield’ signs, which has been adopted in other European countries, like Germany, Belgium, and Sweden.
The rationale? Physics:
Why Bicyclists Blow Through Stop Signs: It’s Physics - Lloyd Alter…
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