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Hector Linares

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a gentleman and a scholar

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Why is the sky blue?

Why is the sky blue? explainers.blog/posts/why-is...

10.02.2026 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Airfoil – Bartosz Ciechanowski Interactive article explaining the physics of an airfoil and what makes airplanes fly

Airfoil – Bartosz Ciechanowski ciechanow.ski/airfoil/

28.01.2026 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Meet the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize winners arstechnica.com/science/2025...

20.09.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How to draw a Space Invader Β· Muffin Man This interactive post will show you how to build your own fleet of space invaders by mixing geometry with randomness and a splash of color.

How to draw a Space Invader Β· Muffin Man muffinman.io/blog/invader...

09.09.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thousands of climbing catfish filmed scaling waterfalls New footage provides rare insight into the daring migration of an enigmatic fish

Thousands of climbing catfish filmed scaling waterfalls | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

26.08.2025 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock Todays candles have been optimized for millenia not to flicker. But it turns out when we bundle three of them together, we can undo all of these optimizations and the resulting triplet will start t…

Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock cpldcpu.com/2025/08/13/c...

19.08.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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how to cheat at settlers by loading the dice My copy of Settlers of Catan came with two normal wooden dice. To load these dice, I placed them in a small plate of water overnight, leaving the 6 side exposed.

how to cheat at settlers by loading the dice izbicki.me/blog/how-to-...

23.05.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable LEGO Designs from Text LegoGPT generates a LEGO structure from a user-provided text prompt in an end-to-end manner. Notably, our generated LEGO structure is physically stable and buildable.

LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable LEGO Designs from Text avalovelace1.github.io/LegoGPT/

09.05.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Getting things "done" in large tech companies --

Getting things "done" in large tech companies www.seangoedecke.com/getting-thin...

06.05.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tracing the thoughts of a large language model Anthropic's latest interpretability research: a new microscope to understand Claude's internal mechanisms

Tracing the thoughts of a large language model

03.04.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How Anime Fans Stumbled upon a Mathematical Proof https://buff.ly/rQgUdj9

07.03.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/what-really-happened-in-calvine-the-mystery-behind-the-best-ufo-picture-ever-seen?CMP=share_btn_url

11.02.2025 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights https://buff.ly/42PuI5S

11.02.2025 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

https://www.angel.com/movies/rule-breakers?utm_campaign=Newsletter

07.02.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Benedict Cumberbatch Reads a Letter to a Man Blow-Drying His Balls at the Gym We have featured Benedict Cumberbatch reading letters by Kurt Vonnegut, Alan Turing, Albert Camus, and Nick Cave, along with passages fromΒ Kafka's Metamorphosis and Melville'sΒ Moby Dick. It's all pret...

Benedict Cumberbatch Reads a Letter to a Man Blow-Drying His Balls at the Gym www.openculture.com/2025/01/bene...

30.01.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Great Art Explained: The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci https://buff.ly/40yPyDU

24.01.2025 23:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Al Green - Everybody Hurts (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Al Green Al Green - Everybody Hurts (Official Lyric Video)

Sometimes a musician records a cover version of a song and it is so mind-blowing, you can never listen to the original in the same way again.

A nearly 80 year-old Al Green just released his new single, a cover of REM's "Everybody Hurts." And holy crap, can he still sing.

youtu.be/UEwPIfk6LpQ?...

24.11.2024 01:52 β€” πŸ‘ 66    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5

The Art and Science of Mess Management (1981) [pdf] | Hacker News https://buff.ly/3PP3NzA

23.01.2025 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Powell's Essential List: 25 Best Sci-fi and Fantasy Books of the 21st Century (So Far) | Powell's Books https://buff.ly/40C1iHd

16.01.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The final Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. The entire page is mostly white as they're in the winter snow. The pair is walking with a sledge, nicely duffled in in scarves, hats, gloves. Calvin delightedly exclaims 'wow, it really snowed las night! Isn't it wonderful?'. Hobbes follows up with 'Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand-new!' -- A new year... a fresh, clean start!' adds Calvin. As they look over the landscape, Hobbes observes 'it's like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on!' -- 'A day full of possibilities!' Calvin affirms. They get ready on their sledge and Calvin tells his friend 'it's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... let's go exploring!', and the pair sledges off into the wintery landscape.

The final Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. The entire page is mostly white as they're in the winter snow. The pair is walking with a sledge, nicely duffled in in scarves, hats, gloves. Calvin delightedly exclaims 'wow, it really snowed las night! Isn't it wonderful?'. Hobbes follows up with 'Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand-new!' -- A new year... a fresh, clean start!' adds Calvin. As they look over the landscape, Hobbes observes 'it's like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on!' -- 'A day full of possibilities!' Calvin affirms. They get ready on their sledge and Calvin tells his friend 'it's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... let's go exploring!', and the pair sledges off into the wintery landscape.

31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.

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Harvard Puts Online a Huge Collection of Bauhaus Art Objects YouΒ may have first encountered the word Bauhaus as the name of a campy, arty post-punk bandΒ that influenced goth music and fashion. But you'llΒ also know that the band took its name from an even more i...

Harvard Puts Online a Huge Collection of Bauhaus Art Objects

28.11.2024 00:22 β€” πŸ‘ 137    πŸ” 58    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3

Full article: The Identification of the Sacred β€œChiton” (Sarapis) of Pharaoh Alexander the Great in Tomb II at Vergina, Macedonia, Greece https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00934690.2024.2409503#abstract

01.11.2024 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The British Pathe Archive https://buff.ly/4hHbxR5

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After Colombia's FARC peace agreement, scientists found more new species - https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombias-peace-opened-wildlife-discovery-new-violence-frustrates-progress-2024-10-27/

27.10.2024 11:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ephemeral tic tac toe βŒβ­• https://buff.ly/3MgiNF0

21.08.2024 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I Made the World's Best Foosball Robot! https://youtu.be/xrwXZXGiP1w?si=z1GIYtH6k4Lk7bSt via @YouTube

19.08.2024 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Size XXXS, Miniature Sweaters https://buff.ly/3SPOus7

19.08.2024 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

50 Places to Eat and Drink Before You Die @atlasobscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/lists/gastro-obscura-best-restaurants-bars

19.08.2024 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Origin & Evolution of Italian Stuffed Pasta Shapes https://buff.ly/3YNlp4n

16.08.2024 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Science Goes to the Olympics https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/07/29/science/paris-olympics-science.html?smid=tw-share

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