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One of my favorite words is "epexegetic" or epexegetically Edit-- it's an example of an esoteric word

Wet noodle.

The idea in the OP reminds me of the traveling wave design most recently (?) promoted by Bill gates.

I was watching a video on Uranus and some recent developments. There is consideration of a new mission to Uranus to get up close. What...

In all of the years I've written ft-lb, kw-hr,... I never once saw - as a minus sign. Now I can't un-see it, lol.

I told my wife about this IQ thread and she reminded me of an experience with one of our kids. The IQ tester asked him (at age 4 or 5...

Except for the population of kids in Lake Wobegon.

I must be missing something here. If IQ follows a normal distribution wouldn't 50% be average or above (not 80%)? I know this is a...

My thought was, as a young person comes up in grade school and through high school, the "smart kids" are pushed into the sciences -...

TIL that Flotsam and Jetsam were not only not what I thought they were, but there are two other types: I think I'll have to hang up...

Ugh.

They do not process text, they numerically predict the weather, and the airflow over wings or bodies using finite element analysis. They...

A few questions in no particular order. So it makes me wonder: the guys that were buying Cray computers in the 1980's (let's just say...

I didn't realize that, I just assumed ... EDIT: wait: TIL