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in-degree/out-degree distribution of the Wikipedia's hyperlink graph in logarithmic coordinates. The distribution follows a simple geometric pattern (an "ant-hill").

The Fed cut interest rates a quarter point, then said they'd do more, then admitted that no one has any idea what's happening, because economics is not a real "science" and that textbooks should come with warning labels. "Economics is more...

The damn thing doesn’t exist. And Mr Moulton, who apparently designed the thing as part of his Virginia Tech master’s thesis, didn’t even bother to check whether his design could possibly bloody work at all, even if you built it more...

“The world of 1958 is pretty much the same world we live in today technologically speaking. This is an interesting fact which is little appreciated.”

“Advocates of evidence based medicine have criticised the adoption of interventions evaluated by using only observational data. We think that everyone might benefit if the most radical protagonists of evidence based medicine organised and participated in a double blind, randomised, more...

Statistical Mechanics of Money, Income, and Wealth. In a closed economic system, money is conserved. Thus, by analogy with energy, the equilibrium probability distribution of money must follow the exponential Gibbs law characterized by an effective temperature equal to the more...

“When Death met the philosopher, the philosopher said, rather excitedly: "At this point, you realise, I'm both dead and not dead."”

a CIA project launched by the Directorate of Science & Technology in the 1960s attempting to use cats in spy missions. A battery and a microphone were implanted into a cat and an antenna into its tail.

Giant Japanese hornets slaughter European honeybee hive.

“Columbia's fragments were painstakingly and exhaustively collected. Amongst them was a 400MB Seagate hard drive which was in the sort of shape you think it would be in after being in an explosive fire and then hurled to earth from more...

“Deep inside this mound there is an ex-to-be-very-secret Russian neutrino lab. It belongs to the Russian Nuclear Research Center and was build to explore the neutrino particle properties.”