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Oxygen mask in MH17 flight: an important clue?
Since the moment when the MH17 aircraft was shot down, we were bombarded by self-confident accusations (especially from the mouths of folks in Kiev a…
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Kruskal can read your mind and the mind of God
Gordon sent me a fun trick invented by physicist Martin David Kruskal. He can read your mind. Choose a random word in the first 3 verses of the Bible…
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Sexual predator gets apology
As Lurker has pointed out, the six-year old sexual predator from Brockton, Massachusetts and his parents finally get an apology from the school offi…
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Some pictures
For those who want to see some random photographs, a couple of links follows (MSIE recommended): Antiwar rally, March 20th, 2003 Antiwar rally, Mass…
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Boston Marathon blasts
The video below shows one of the blasts a few meters from the camera (that starts to swing); the other blast is heard elsewhere 13 seconds later. Th…
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The Reference Frame: fifth birthday
Exactly five years ago, on October 11th, 2004, 12:08 am Central European Time (i.e. 10/10/04, 6:08 pm Boston Time), this blog began to entertain and …
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Thanks to Mark Trodden
I don't know yet if it will work out but even if it won't, I want to thank Mark Trodden from Cosmic Variance (and from Syracuse University) f…
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Kryptonite locks
This article is about one of the less serious topics. One of the things that I had to buy when I came to Cambridge was a bike. Of course, one also ne…
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MIT: Daniel Barclay died
Daniel Barclay (22), an MIT political science & economics senior, has been missing since April 8th. Although it could be his body that was found …
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Busch Campus suicide catalyzer indicted
Between Fall 1997 and Fall 2001, I lived in a dormitory at the Busch Campus of Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey - in greater New Brunswi…
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Boston landfills
Anthony Watts writes about the artificial land created in Boston. It's a topic that I have always found amazing, so I can't resist to write …
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Murder at Harvard: Justin Cosby of Cambridge, RIP
Update: The murderer is Jabrai Jordan Copney (20 year old, a musician from New York) or one of his two companions. The reason were USD 1,000 and a…
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Monarchies and republics
Prince William and Kate Middleton have become Duke and Duchess of Cambridge after they married, congratulations. The British imperial taxpayer has ha…
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Cell phone battery and the fridge
A month ago, during the 0 °F cold snap, it looked like my cell phone whose (18 months old) battery used to last for 10 days at the very beginning got…
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Magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile
The recent earthquake that killed about 250,000 people in Haiti had magnitude of 7.0. It took place in the depth of 15 km, about 50 km from the capi…
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New Year's Eve fireworks and spacetime continuity at the event horizon
Happy New Year! Note that 2018 factorizes as 2*1009, the latter is a prime. Most of you have probably seen and heard some fireworks. In my hometown,…
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Happy New Decade
The 2010s have begun. While 40% of the native English speakers call it the "twenty tens", 60% use the term "two thousand and tens"…
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My nearly velvet divorce with Bank of America
Off-topic : If you want to make one click with a bigger impact, you may boost a user (me) above the reputation level of 100,000 literally by one cli…
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An incredible racist restaurant in New Orleans
I received a link to this article in The Washington Times (right-wing) Restaurant charged white customers more to combat ‘racial wealth disparity’ . …
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New Year's Eve fireworks and spacetime continuity at the event horizon
Happy New Year! Note that 2018 factorizes as 2*1009, the latter is a prime. Most of you have probably seen and heard some fireworks. In my hometown,…
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