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Bad Math Jokes
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Why do we spend so little time learning grammar in college?
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Programming Jokes: Lame, Science & Math Jokes!
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YouTube Classics, Part Deux
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Cultural exchange forum?
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"The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates to reduce inflation"
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News RIP Kenneth Nordtvedt
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Legal AI Shenanigans
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Share Animal Pictures: For Animal Lovers
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Some thoughts about self-education
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APS's 2026 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize!
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Why Do Fathers Experience Premature Graying?
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Is this device possible (hope not)?
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A.I. Taking Over the Doing of Homework?
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Rare Earth Magnets costs NZ teen part of his bowel
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What is this Facebook formatting trend?
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The Great Crash of Amazon AWS and Reduction in Staff in Favor of AI
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States of matter: "viscoelastic fluid", familiar term is "cream"
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NASA Shutdown
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Ferris Eugene Alger
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RIP Chen Ning Yang (1922-2025)
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Please give me some ideas... (hackathon problem statement)
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RIP Susan Stamberg (87), NPR 'founding mother'
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RIP John Stachel (1928-2025)
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Yikes! Autonomous cars to control intersections, drivers be aware!
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Predictions for the Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 (results: John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis)
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Anybody following (or followed) Jack Ryan (2018)?
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RIP John Lodge (82), bassist and lyricist with the Moody Blues
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In the early days of electricity, they didn't have wall plugs
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RIP Darleane C. Hoffman (1926-2025)
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Could the Laws of Physics Be Proportional to Entropy?
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Complexity Physics and Tipping Points in Chess
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RIP Jane Goodall (91), primatologist and conservationist
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Constructing a meme - an exercise
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RIP Claudine Cardinale
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Status Update by JRMichler
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Will-o’-the-Wisps
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Does anybody know about Spacecraft Online Simulator?
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RIP Mary Gaillard (1939-2025)
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RIP George F. Smoot III (1945-2025)
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Does anyone own a Wimshurst or Electrostatic machine?
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A Big Thank You to Physics Forums
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15 Years at PF!
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Happy Pythagorean Day!
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A question about Emma Kok Singing
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RIP. Richard Davies (22 July 1944 – 6 September 2025)
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James Hartle RIP: Remembering a Beloved GR Teacher
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RIP Robert Redford (89)
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Is mathematics invented or discovered?
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Is the criteria for the present perfect tense in Warriner's textbook inadequate?
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Fast Food Discussion: Mexican Pizza at Taco Bell
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How the Blue Angels Train
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Kitten raising advice
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The Case of Andrew D. - out
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A Crisis in France -- Bottled water may not be what it's advertised to be
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'How Does Your Garden Grow' thread - raised beds
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ChatGPT Facilitating Insanity
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My experience as a hostage
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RIP Rainer Weiss (1932-2025)
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How do people explore new ideas in physics?
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News BITCOIN, Heists, Thefts, Hacks, Scams, and Losses
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Great one-liners from PF members
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Gravity in science fiction movies
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Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed
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RIP Daniel Kleppner (1932-2025)
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RIP Jayant Narlikar (1938-2025)
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News JWST may be shut down by DOGE
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AI vs. German Physics Olympiad
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Anyone been to a Savannah Bananas Baseball Game?
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Physics inserted in society
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RIP James Lovell, the astronaut who brought Apollo 13 home safely
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RIP Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923-2025)
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Finding support to complete a UK charity registration application
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The Guardian Investigates Student Use of ChatGPT for 18 months
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Article about 17 year-old math talent
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In defense of the philosophy of physics
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The Mathematical Wizard, A House's Windows, And Solar Flux
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Lectures on integral invariants and Hamiltonian equations
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RIP Tom Lehrer (1928-2025)
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How to get Hackathon sponsors?
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Body Language: Head posture
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RIP Fauja Singh, 114, world's oldest marathon runner
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Seeking Interested Physicists
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Article about designing new fusion powerplants
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R.I.P. Sir Francis Graham-Smith 1923- 2025
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Speculative theory
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