The jet is tens of millions of times larger than the supermassive black hole’s event horizon.

An MIT study on “legalese” suggests this convoluted language acts to convey a sense of authority in legal documents. The researchers also found that even non-lawyers use legalese when asked to write laws.

Most of the documents are heading to the auction block, where they could fetch more than $1 million. They were found in a bank vault owned by the French statesman's son

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🧵So, here's an updated tl;dr on #Puppet as an #OpenSource project: a fork is absolutely coming now. There was a "town hall" today in which Perforce made it quite clear they are going to claim they want to work with the community while not…

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This is a rewrite of the lead section, as I feel the previous one was overly long-winded, yet did not meaningfully summarize the most important points of the article in a way that enables readers t...

From my teenage days browsing skyscraper forums to standing atop the third tallest building in the world, I've witnessed how a single river divides two different architectural worlds that somehow form one incredible city.

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A swords-and-sorcery programming environment for building and counting mathematical structures

The drummer tells Times Radio his disability, which causes him to struggle with numeracy, is the reason he looks ‘pained’ when he performs

The story of the The StoryGraph with graphs

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Harnessing the latest advancement in Quartz 3D-printing, the Dune Chess Set attempts to create an engaging tactile experience for players

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