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I attended this show on October 27th. This was Kanade's birthday show. They served her a cake with lighted candles. For one song they...

Glass can contain up to 40% lead and still be transparent. I was amazed when I learned this. Benjamin Franklin invented a musical...

To me the stars are the uncredited keyboard and bass players. Maybe they're AI....

Fusion lived a short but intense life in the West then found a home in Nihon. Their national symbols are an active volcano and a giant...

Skier Mikaela Shiffrin this year achieved complete dominance in slalom ski racing, winning nine of ten races by large margins. In the...

It's my understanding that most cancer cells have no staying power as cultures. The big exception are HeLa cells, cancer extracted from...

The Beatles wrote The Rolling Stones' first hit record, then recorded it themselves as a better version. Cat Stevens' first hit song...

Formally, no, because the fact that something hasn't happened yet doesn't mean that it won't happen tomorrow. Informally, the big guy...

Those couplers look 2D to me. They'd be unreliable in a 3D world.

In 3D two perpendicular lines can't move past one another. In 4D they can do it easily. Basically to get around something you need...

I often see that knots are impossible in 4D. But these are mathematical knots, 1D closed curves floating freely in space. In real life...

I once asked AI whether some topological thing was true. It gave me a proof I didn't understand. Later mathematicians told me it was...

If space had 4 Euclidian dimensions instead of 3 then rifles would require flechetted bullets. A 4D bullet has two planes of rotation...

Neil Sedaka.