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Und hier sind wieder interessante Links, die mir letzte Woche begegnet sind:

Von Stefan Winterbauer Schade, dass Live-Übertragungen aus Gerichtssälen nicht erlaubt sind. Es wäre sicher nicht ohne Erkenntnisgewinn gewesen, hätte man auch von Ferne dem…

Krypto kann manchmal ganz schön kompliziert sein und kaum einer weiß, was da genau passiert, wenn er beispielsweise verschlüsselte Mails schickt. Das neue “Klar…

My 12-year-old daughter is proposing an interesting project. She is planning to attach a number of helium balloons to a chair, which in turn would be tethered by means of a rope to a Ferrari. Her…

Klimaforscher haben seit den 1970ern davor gewarnt: Jetzt ist der Westantarktische Eisschild instabil geworden und hat seinen unaufhaltsamen Zerfall begonnen. Das wird den Meeresspiegel deutlich…

Before eating many fruits and some vegetables, some people—bad, or perhaps ignorant people—do something which renders the produce less tasty, less colorful, less texturally interesting,…

Could a person walk the entire city of NY in their lifetime? (including inside apartments) Asaf Shamir Like the answer to Paint the Earth, the answer to the first part of this question is pretty…

Vigilante: “If you publish this work on the Internet I will sue you” Matthieu Tremblin: “The Treason of Brands / The two evidences” Bethan Huws Karina Pais: “You…

From these lecture notes by Harvey Friedman comes one of the best metamathematical anecdotes I’ve ever heard (and yes, I’ve heard my share). Apparently Friedman was attending a talk by…

If I shot an infinitely strong laser beam into the sky at a random point, how much damage would it do? Garrett D. A lot of the time, if a question includes the word “infinity,” the answer is “an…

© TimeBill Gates 1984, erstmals auf dem Cover des Time Magazine. Vor dreißig Jahren, im April 1984, war Microsoft-Gründer Bill Gates erstmals auf dem Cover des „Time…

Everyone knows the US imprisons more people than any other country in the world. What they might not know is that, as an American citizen, you’re more likely to be jailed than if you were…

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