How does a professional conference get banned from Vegas? Ask these physicists According to legend, the American Physical Society was not welcome in Sin City.

Likely so but I bet set theorists are almost as bad as physicists …

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I had a dream which included a lynx that had partly domesticated itself and someone described him by saying, "he didn’t get sold a lot of yarn last year.” I don't know if I've ever heard that phrase in real life but it seems like the sort of thing a Brit might say to insult their neighbor's cat.

Nope, turned out to be bad solder joints on the control board for the boiler.

My heat stopped working this morning but luckily turning it off and on again fixed it. That seems odd though, it's a mostly analog system.

Do thought police like Gedanken Donuts?

Who Invented the Turkey Hand? One of the mysteries of the holidays.

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