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Gadget madness. Too elaborate to summarize. Is it hyperLEGO?

An extremely massive and unwieldy weapon. I knew about the WWI railroad artillery but for WWII Deutschland outdid itself. To bear the...

Exponents are about multiplication, and 1 is the multiplicative identity. If exponents represented repeated addition the zeroeth power...

Or, more generally, ##a^{n+m}=a^na^m## implies ##a^0=1##, because otherwise ##a^{n+0}\neq a^n##.

It's coming whether we like it or not. They're doing a pretty good job already so it might not make that much difference. It's...

Here it is playing rock guitar. Much better than a keyboard with a pitch wheel.

Half steps left to right, fourths top to bottom like a guitar is the default but this may be any interval you like, fifths, octaves...

That doesn’t measure the gravitational force, even in Newtonian physics. In the ISS the Newtonian gravitational force is almost the same...

On the topic of manipulating humans, this article sums up one thing that's been on my mind for a number of years. I have always hoped...

Investigating the history of math or the philosophy of math is not exactly the same as using math. A more convincing reference would...

Another source could be errors in measurement. More reactants than measured or misweighed the product. When I say percent yield I mean...

This was my submission: We just wanted to dance! It was our dream: tour the galaxy and dance. We caught the eye of the...

co-developed the pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine in 1932.

The device can add inertia to the suspension travel without adding very much actual mass. If the suspension is thought of in an...

So with a clock, the more dimensions you have the more perpendicular you would tend to be to that clock. Now instead consider standing...