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TIL that the capital of New Zealand was moved from northern Aukland to central Wellington because back in the 1850s representatives from...

Chet Baker was a big deal but today is largely forgotten. They were going to make him a movie star but he couldn't deal with it...

I love Hiromi on the occasions she gets away from the superspeed thang. Note that halfway through she can't stand it any more and...

TIL rats were taught to play Doom II. They aren't that good at it though.

This lady has the prettiest voice in the world.

The metaphor I like is of rising dough of raisin bread. But maybe today people don't know what that means.

Several things. Velocity is a vector. What does it mean to say a velocity is at its maximum? Ok, we can say that its magnitude is at...

What's wrong with relative velocity?

I don’t even know what that means. Treat the minute hand as fixed (i.e. work in the frame of the minute hand). The tip of the hour hand...

Note: don't try this with polar bears. On second thought, it makes no difference whether you run or not.

Music video creators have only a finite amount of effort to expend. Most of it goes into visual. In the old days radio and albums were...

I checked up on this and with the selection of five popular power singers I got I preferred the nonAutotuned singing. I have seen a vid...

An infinite universe if isotropic has both an infinite amount of space and an infinite amount of matter. Calculating a density would...