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From Wikipedia: In 1962 he became the first American to orbit the earth, circling three times. Before joining NASA, he was a distinguished fighter pilot in both World War II and Korea, with five Distinguished Flying Crosses and eighteen clusters. He was one of the "Mercury Seven" group of...

Two enlightening articles: Why People Believe Conspiracy Theories Why Do People Believe in Conspiracy Theories?

Ford GT My reaction? 1.) Overpriced. For that money ($400K) you can have a Lamborghini Aventador (IMHO, a superior car in every respect). 2.) No manual tranny offered...a hypercar with a slushbox is just, well...wrong. 3.) A small twin turbocharged V6 engine? 600+ hp and 500+ lb/ft of...

Let: $\displaystyle L=\lim_{n\to\infty}\left(\sqrt{n^2+n}-\sqrt[3]{n^3+n^2}\right)$ Find $L$...and show your work to get 1,000 CH cash (1,500 CH cash for proofs that don't rely on L'Hôpital's Rule).

New AI algorithm taught by humans learns beyond its training Researchers have designed an algorithm that learns directly from human instructions, rather than an existing set of examples, and outperformed conventional methods of training neural networks by 160 per cent. But more surprisingly...

Distant star is roundest object ever observed in nature Scientists measure the shape of Kepler 11145123 with unprecedented precision Stars are not perfect spheres. While they rotate, they become flat due to the centrifugal force. A team of researchers has now succeeded in measuring the...

Supercomputer comes up with a profile of dark matter Extension of the Standard Model predicts properties of candidate particle In the search for the mysterious dark matter, physicists have used elaborate computer calculations to come up with an outline of the particles of this unknown form of...

Misunderstanding the Definition of Atheism: The most common misunderstanding about atheism involves the definition. Many people insist that atheism is really the denial of the existence of God, but there are two errors here. First, it pretends that atheism is exclusively about their god, the...

I found the following posted in the blog of a Christian preacher: "At the end of all our studying and praying and accepting and rejecting and feeling and dismissing and meditating and wrestling; whether we’re completely sold-out for Jesus, or unapologetically Buddhist or devout practitioners of...

I have a confession to make...I was mischievous and played a prank in the "boys v girls - Part 4" thread, whereby anyone whose profile says they are male (except me, so I could act like I couldn't replicate the issue), was prevented from posting in that thread. :lol::sadwavey: The code I added...

How to merge two black holes in a simple way The merger of two black holes, such as the one that produced the gravitational waves discovered by the LIGO Observatory, is considered an extremely complex process that can only be simulated by the world's most powerful supercomputers. However, two...

NASA's Fermi finds record-breaking binary in galaxy next door Scientists have found the first gamma-ray binary in another galaxy and the most luminous one ever seen. The dual-star system, dubbed LMC P3, contains a massive star and a crushed stellar core that interact to produce a cyclic flood...

I'm on the western edge of the dreaded "cone of uncertainty:" The path has shifted to the west a bit since yesterday...which I didn't want to see. :scared:

USA TODAY's Editorial Board: Trump is 'unfit for the presidency' I have copied/pasted the text of the editorial linked above here: The Editorial Board has never taken sides in the presidential race. We're doing it now. In the 34-year history of USA TODAY, the Editorial Board has never taken...

ssXRR0cWd9I For those of you that don't know, Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator. Since 1996, he has been the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City. The center is...

Hey robot, shimmy like a centipede Devices mimic creature's surprising unstable advantage Researchers have used computer simulations and robotics to uncover a surprising insight into the mechanics of locomotion, namely that taming instability -- a factor that might be a disadvantage -- is a...

Watching the brain do math Brain activity patterns reveal distinct stages of thinking that can be used to improve how students learn mathematical concepts A new neuroimaging study reveals the mental stages people go through as they are solving challenging math problems. Insights from this new...

Ripples in fabric of space-time? Hundreds of undiscovered black holes New research shines startling light on star systems that host hundreds of black holes Computer simulations of a spherical collection of stars known as 'NGC 6101' reveal that it contains hundreds of black holes, until now...

Hubble discovers rare fossil relic of early Milky Way A fossilized remnant of the early Milky Way harboring stars of hugely different ages has been revealed by an international team of astronomers. This stellar system resembles a globular cluster, but is like no other cluster known. It contains...

Tropical Storm Hermine is strengthening in the Gulf of Mexico and is forecast to make landfall Thursday night along the Florida panhandle as a Category 1 hurricane. Hermine will bring heavy rain, storm surge flooding, high winds and even some tornadoes to not only Florida, but also the coastal...