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  1. Jan 31

    Germanium is the only stable element named after a country. The others -- francium, polonium, americium, and nihonium -- are radioactive.

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  2. Jan 30

    Indium was not named after India but after indigo, from the blue color in its spectrum.

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  3. Jan 29
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  4. Jan 28

    The hypocenter of an earthquake is the point below the earth's surface where a fault rupture begins.

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    Jan 27

    Oldies but goldies: MacAdam, Visual sensitivities to color differences in daylight, 1942. Showed that color perception can be modelled using an anisotropic metric.

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  6. Jan 27
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  7. Jan 27

    Remember: With great power comes great current squared times resistance.

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  8. Jan 26

    Lorentz is the relativity guy. Lorenz is the dynamical systems guy.

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  9. Jan 24
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  10. Jan 23
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  11. Jan 22

    If a credit card won't read when swiped, does wrapping it in plastic actually help and if so, why?

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  12. Jan 21

    Immanuel Kant proposed the nebular hypothesis of solar system formation in 1755.

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    Jan 21

    An elegant representation for putting them all to scale

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  14. Jan 20

    For any magnetic field B, you can find a vector potential A such that B = curl A.

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    Jan 20

    Kiwis lay the largest egg in relation to their body size of any species of bird in the world. It can weigh as much as 450 g: if we compare that proportion to humans, it would mean giving birth to a fully grown 4 year old kid

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    Jan 16
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  18. Jan 16

    'The role of the infinitely small is infinitely large.' -- Louis Pasteur

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  19. Jan 15

    Differential equation for charge in a circuit with inductance L, resistance R, capacitance C, & voltage source E.

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    Jan 14

    This is a short-tailed fruit bat Carollia perspicillata at the embryonic stage

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