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It appears that Jeopardy! is the highest profile stop on the elite quiz circuit, but others carry greater prestige

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High-volume and -quality information and advice about improving sleep

Rob infuses this series of lectures about metta with genuine love and kindness. Inspiring and profound.

After watching this, I fully expect you to tell me that Tom Hanks is still the sexiest man alive.

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A source I read several weeks ago implied that this was a special comet. This NASA article makes it sound barely worth the effort to step outside after sunset 🤷

Somewhat interesting video aboard a B-52

Astronomers predict a star will explode this year brightly enough for us to see

An amazing tool that dynamically generates sounds of various kinds

A neat tool that plots the frequency of terms appearing in the Google Books database, currently indexed between 1800 and 2019.

Examples:

• Web services
• Pop musicians
• Religions

They captured this video by relaying the signal through Starship’s wake to the Starlink network. I don’t know if anyone has seen the plasma phase in real-time before. Perhaps the military via their satellite network

The Horner chaos exposed the fact that Red Bull Racing is co-owned by an Austrian group and a Thai group. How did people from Thailand get involved with Red Bull? Because a Thai man invented the energy drink. Red Bull's Austrian founder invested after finding it helped with jet lag.

From a car conversation comment...

The hand with a wheel in the palm is a symbol for ahimsa, meaning nonviolence. It comes from Jainism

I'll see your Wadi Rum and raise you a Kailasa

And yet the delta is only +2% red (seven seats)

Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Clearly not

Did we meet this tour guide?

This explains it well

This author's book is about a unit of soldiers from northern Alabama. Southern Union sympathizers comprised about 5% of the Union Army. Mentally bookmark the data point that the South wasn't entirely Confederate.

Although they were committed to preserving the Union, they weren't abolitionists.

The author said during the interview that about 5% of Southern land owners were wealthy enough to own slaves. The vast majority of farms were too small and economically incapable.

We shouldn't laugh, but... yeah, we should laugh. Probably a waste of perfectly good RC cars

Senate Bill 1548 is this session's attempt to jettison daylight savings. Per this post to the EAS mailing list, it's progressing, if only symbolically:

> So last night Senator Prozanski and I had the conversation regarding daylight savings time over an IPA or two. The bill has bipartisan support and should pass this short session. Implementing it might be another story this year. All bills passed every session don't take effect until the first of the following year unless the Governor signs an emergency proclamation which this technically doesn't fit the parameters. So yes we will be more than likely going back to standard time but more than likely not until next year.

Courtesy of Pi as it pertains to Donth Vader v. Anderson:

> A party can appeal a state supreme court ruling to the federal Supreme Court under certain limited circumstances. The federal Supreme Court has the power to review state court decisions when there's a federal question involved, such as a claim based on the U.S. Constitution, federal law, or a treaty. > > To appeal a state supreme court ruling to the federal Supreme Court, a party must file a writ of certiorari, which is a request for the court to review the case. The Supreme Court has discretion over which cases it hears, and it only accepts a small percentage of the cases filed each year. > >In addition to federal questions, there are a few other circumstances in which the Supreme Court can review a state court decision, such as: > > If the case involves diversity of citizenship, meaning the parties are from different states and the amount in controversy exceeds a certain threshold. > > If the state court's decision is in conflict with a decision of a federal court or another state's supreme court. > > If the case involves a significant question of federalism or interstate relations.

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Answer to your recent question about known impact craters. Items of note:

• an asteroid hit South Africa 2B years ago leaving a crater larger than Chicxulub's. Of course, nothing multi-cellular was around to see it
• one hit Canada a little more recently that's nearly as large. Henry Kissinger was old enough to remember it
• our nearest crater hit the Idaho/Montana border. Only potatoes and bison survived

Curiously absent is the hole created when Jeb Bush's presidential campaign imploded

Bats see with sonar. Cats see in the dark. Chemists see the periodic table this way.

Source: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ab/89/7d/ab897dbf8bba309705d9ec500467cca7.png

Just watched this on OPB and thought it was fascinating. Might be worth trying to reach out to researchers to participate in trials (if possible)