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King tides are no joke
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NASA Shutdown
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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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RIP Daniel Kleppner (1932-2025)
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Movies you'd forgotten were really cool?
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Why Does Snow Pack Better Near the Melting Point?
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Why do we spend so little time learning grammar in college?
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Best physics magazines?
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Kitten raising advice
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Einstein vs Newton - Who is your favorite and why?
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Happy Thanksgiving
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Happy Thanksgiving - YouTube Video
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To get rid of a singularity in the Lagrange equations
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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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APS's 2026 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize!
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Why Do Fathers Experience Premature Graying?
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A.I. Taking Over the Doing of Homework?
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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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Ferris Eugene Alger
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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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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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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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Does anybody know about Spacecraft Online Simulator?
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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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James Hartle RIP: Remembering a Beloved GR Teacher
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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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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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Gravity in science fiction movies
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Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed
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News JWST may be shut down by DOGE
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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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