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Curious Notions is getting a much-needed overhaul! Easier to navigate! More paradigm-challenging! More up-to-date (and simpler for me to maintain)! As Joe E. Ross would say, Ooh, ooh, ooh!
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Born today in 1858: Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria |
- Not just bones now: 110-million-year-old petrified dinosaur unearthed
- How Greeks pronounce the Greek alphabet (Hint: not like us)
- Glow-in-the-dark ice cream, activated by licking
- First-ever video of a pointy-nosed blue chimaera “ghost shark”
- Twisting the light away: Cramming more bandwidth into light beams
- Not just a dog: Here’s an anthem sung in Pomeranian, aka Kashubian
- Strange purple sea orb under investigation
- Introducing the bioluminescent ninja lanternshark
- More “hobbits” found on Flores Island
- Something just slammed into Jupiter
- Bitcoin creator finally unmasked?
- EmDrive experiments humming along
- Bizarre Tully monster now classified, akin to lamprey
- Conflagration-proof lithium-ion battery announced
- Watch a soap bubble freeze
- Robotic rubber cube goes hippity-hop
- Anticipated NASA’s salt-water-on-Mars declaration by almost 14 years (Pardon my 2001-vintage web design there.)
- Expedition now mounted to re-explore Tut’s tomb
- Possible unexplored chambers off Tutankhamen’s tomb
- Propellant-less EmDrive also works in vacuum, looks like
- How hummingbirds snore
- Telomere extension? Sign me up.
- Fascinating article on century-old balsamic
- Low-energy nuclear reaction (“cold fusion”) looking even better now
- Half of earth’s heat comes from radioactive decay