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A Newly Reported Muon Wobble Could Break Physics as We Know It

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"It's a mystery" said University of Chicago law professor Geoffrey Stone - who was appointed by President Obama to review the National Security Agency's bulk data collection program revealed by Edward Snowden. "I don’t understand why the government would go to the Postal Service for examining the internet for security issues."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/usps-running-covert-operations-program-spy-americans-social-media-posts-share-other

Trust the science:

“Coffee drinkers had a more ‘efficient’ brain, with quicker connectivity in the cerebellum, the right precuneus, and the right insular.”

www.studyfinds.org/drink-coffee-more-alert-memory/

“If you wish to do work like this, I suggest you find a different community to run your experiments on, you are not welcome here.”

www.tomshardware.com/news/linux-fellow-bans-university-contributing-kernel

This is a superb and intuitive introduction to Fourier analysis including lots of interactive demonstrations:

betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-the-fourier-transform/

Comics - the foundation of civilization? Why, yes. Read on:

voxday.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-foundation-of-civilization.html

Interesting…

theconversation.com/when-did-we-become-fully-human-what-fossils-and-dna-tell-us-about-the-evolution-of-modern-intelligence-143717

Via Nick Cole:

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1382504928673820673.html

Not surprised to learn one of my favorite time travel movies was inspired by John C. Wright. And the entire movie is on YouTube:

www.scifiwright.com/2021/04/the-time-shifters/#more-27906

“buried in the data was evidence of sensitive US military operations by American special-operations forces in Syria.”

www.zerohedge.com/technology/company-weaponizes-soldiers-smartphone-data-expose-us-military-secrets

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Michael Collins, an American astronaut who was part of the famous Apollo 11 crew and the first lunar landing mission in 1969, has died. He was 90. #RIP

The man online has an strange hobby of locating where pictures were taken, and it saved this hiker's life!

https://www.theepochtimes.com/hiker-lost-in-mountains-texts-single-photo-of-his-legs-and-man-online-uses-it-to-locate-him-saving-his-life_3789279.html?utm_medium=epochtimes&utm_source=telegram

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“Frankenstein is a protest against the vision of the world proposed by the Enlightenment…”

www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/frankenstein-10806

A man was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight because he didn’t wear his mask in between eating bites of food, which according to the TSA is now a federal mandate.

https://summit.news/2021/04/30/man-kicked-off-plane-for-not-wearing-mask-in-between-bites-of-food/

There are two bizarre, mutant American customs that Europeans simply cannot comprehend: Building a house from wood. And leaving a $4 tip on a $20 lunch.

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"Why do Boy Scouts wear neckerchiefs? Because Burnham wore a neckerchief. In Baden-Powell’s estimation, the goal of Boy Scouts was to turn boys into men like Burnham."

https://wilderwealthywise.com/culture-wars-the-boy-scouts-and-hollywood-including-a-bikini-graph/