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My all time favorite is 'idiota', an almost internationally, western world, agreed upon word. In my youth, I dissected the word into...

Wordle 1,699 3/6* ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ 43/55/118 (WB 227) ⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛ 2/0/2 (4) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 (1.500) global mean: 3.678

Yes, that's the history I was taught in school. This reminds me of Kasparov. Jewish father, armenian mother, born in Aserbaijan, grew...

According to google translate, it's Bulgarian. Borek and I have a mutual Facebook friend living in Bulgaria and I thought it was...

Wordle 1,696 solution was 'CELLO' Wordle 1,698 5/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ lots (WB 1285) ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ 20/12/57 (97) ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ 2/0/2 (4) ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 1/0/0 (1)...

I don't think the suggestion is that they arrived quicker, but rather they were emitted before the gamma burst. Whatever process...

Wow, 7 hours is longer than some commercial flights across the Atlantic. What would happen to the solar system, Earth's atmosphere, and...

Russian is my mother's tongue and I also don't know what that word means. It certainly is not or was not an official word of Russian...

My language has a word стръмна, which means steep. So all this makes sense.

Just heard this one on the radio this morning. Merriam-Webster* recognizes the only non-Earth language word: grok. (It's Martian) It's...

I once asked a couple of my Russian buddies what 'stremnaya / стрёмная' meant and they discussed the meaning for 5 minutes before they...

Longest gamma-ray burst confounds astrophysicists, CERN Courier, 14 January 2026...

Did you know that it takes 48 hours for a day to pass? This was probably the oddest thing I learned while playing Wordle.

Wordle 1,697 4/6* 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ 28/16/81 (wb 136) ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ 7/2/16 (27) ⬛⬛🟨🟨🟩 1/0/0 (1) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 global mean: 3.680

Wordle 1,696 3/6* 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ 115 (wb 134) 🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛ 1/0/8 (10) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 global mean: 3.995