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Tim Urban
@waitbutwhy
Writer, infant
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The explosion came from 2/3 of a gram of matter being converted to energy. About the mass of a paperclip.
The Asahi Illusion. Nothing in the center is actually brighter, but your brain sees a burst of light. Primates and rats react similarly, hinting at shared visual perception across species
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I really wish the rise of LLMs didn't come along with catastrophic job loss, massive privacy invasions, and maybe also the apocalypse. Because when you put those side effects aside, it is the COOLEST MOST WILD TECHNOLOGY EVER.
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I've recently been rewatching this whole series as cozy entertainment to fall asleep to
I’ve seen this, no shit, 300 times. And I still can’t believe this happened
My three-year-old just asked me if our dog came from mommy's belly. Imagine being that level of disoriented.
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I’m gonna go ahead and say this is not good
JUST IN: ChatGPT launches Apple Messages integration on Mac, allowing it to access & analyze users’ entire message history & send texts on their behalf.
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No one: Mathematicians:
This single expression matches the first 18,457,734,525,360,901,453,873,570 digits of e. Euler’s number e is an irrational constant that begins 2.71828… and continues infinitely without repeating. In 2004, Richard Sabey constructed a special expression that uses each of the digits 1 through 9 exactly once. That expression is identical to the classic limit form (1 + 1/n)^n for an extraordinarily large value of n. Because the difference between (1 + 1/n)^n and the true value of e shrinks roughly like 1/(2n), the result agrees with e for precisely as many decimal places as there are digits in that enormous n—exactly 18,457,734,525,360,901,453,873,570 places. The equality of the two power-tower representations of n is an algebraic identity, so the digit count is rigorous rather than approximate. This remains one of the most extreme known pandigital approximations to e.
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This guy's gonna make me do a 180 and become woke
A lot of people aren't going to want to hear this but much of the "depression" that parents (and not just moms) suffer after child birth is due not so much to hormones but to the fact that children, especially babies, are demanding and difficult and require us to subordinate our own needs and desires for their sake. The more selfish you are, the more of an adjustment it's going to be.
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I would have been so much more gripped by learning as a teen if I had been taught with videos like that instead of diagrams like this
The complexity inside a single human cell is almost impossible to comprehend…
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My most conservative position, apparently, is that being forced to pretend belief in things that deeply violate your conscience and sense of truth as a condition of participating in society is an extremely big deal -- for reasons George Orwell explained better than I can
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Autonomous driving is amazing but the true dream will be when the car drops me off right where I’m going and goes off to deal with parking on its own, and then comes back and picks me up when I’m ready to leave
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Venera 7: The little probe that could
It's 2026, and these are still the only images we have from the surface of Venus
Mathematics. I love this animation by Daniel Piker (@KangarooPhysics). Each dot follows a path, and takes 3.5 hrs to return to its starting point. (You might think the dots are jittering or sparkling, but on closer inspection they're walking like ants.) Used with permission.
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This video of me was filmed without my permission
The transit of Earth and the Moon across the Sun's face, as viewed from Saturn.
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My favorite capture of the night: The moment the moon's shadow split the sunset in half, leaving a diamond ring in the sky and a breathtaking view. I call it "Shadows on the Balearic Sea". I'll have prints available for this one linked in my bio for a few days only.
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Abortion is an eternal debate but can we at least agree that the really extreme positions (“a 15-year-old girl who gets pregnant cannot have an abortion 2 days later” / “a healthy 38-week fetus can be induced and killed instead of given up for adoption”) are just mad?
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Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signs the bill for abortions up to birth as Democrats celebrate.
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David Lynch sure likes to waste my time