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This turned out not to be true. She just didn't understand my question. I did have an experience with the word "kaja." The Lonely...

No one wanted to throw their National Geographics away. When I was a kid I'd read the encyclopedia. Nowadays people are getting rid of...

I paid hundreds of dollars (airplane ticket and lodging) to see this band back then. I did that because I know such things don't last...

After 35 years the aggregate mass of the housecats would equal that of the largest known black hole. After 52 years it would equal the...

Today I learned the actor Chevy Chase was the first drummer with Donald Fagan and Walter Becker, later known as Steely Dan.

Seems true to me. Philosophers have pondered this since ancient times and it is quite prominent in Buddhism. How do we know this world...

That could be it. The ground waves produce secondary air waves that arrive earlier. With a lightning bolt of ordinary power these...

A lightning bolt can be many kilometres long as well as reach high altitudes. There is sound transmitted through the ground as well as...

In Balinese there is no word for the branches of a tree. If branch falls off you call it "fallen wood."

Recently there was a thunderstorm here of great power. There would be a bright flash then after ten seconds a rumble that would build...

It can be maximal or minimal, as long it's a path of stationary proper time. See this old thread...

In General Relativity the relevant law is that a particle naturally follows paths of maximal proper time. Not minimal. That is...

There must have been some physics here. @berkeman - have you ever seen one like this? Motorcyclist seriously injured after crash...

About a dozen electric guitarists from all over the world take a verse apiece. I like Helen Ibe from Nigeria. It takes a while to get...