#Wikipedia

On this day in 1940 Germany invaded the Netherlands. The Nazi invasion of 750,000 men was opposed by an obsolete Dutch army of 280,000 men. The battle was lost and
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When Einstein proposed general relativity he laid out three tests: the precession of Mercury's perihelion, deflection of light by the sun, and gravitational redshift. Irwin Shapiro proposed a fourth test
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Organising the small event for @womenoffuture recently, I realised that my knowledge of prominent women in both UK & Malaysia is not diverse. So I've been reading up a lot
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cant get this out of my head so im gonna make a thread about it.inclusionism and illusory truth; the reason so many young and impressionable lgbt kids are roped into
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"Entmoot" by @larihuttunen. https://photography.huttu.net/pics/010849529-entmoot #fantasy #lotr #lordoftherings #ents #treeshepherds #limousin #france #blackandwhite #monochrome #tolkien #entmoot If you haven’t guessed, I’m a
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The comments from some folks siding with Maven vs Grant Wahl is reminiscent of siding with owners vs players."Overpaid to write", "Should be happy with paycut"Look at the history of
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he's not crazy. calling him that is a cop out. it removes society's part in providing the framework for someone like him to thrivehe's an asshole; he's mean, incurious, self-centered
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okay but all jokes aside don't actually edit the wiki pages. the most i did to make the joke was take a screenshot in the editing process then immediately remove
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"Supersymmetry" is a hypothetical symmetry that relates the two kinds of particles in our universe: bosons and fermions. There's no experimental evidence for it.But "superalgebra" is worth studying even if
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Live action shot of GPT-3: Excuse me, a typo in my initial tweet. I meant: a live action shot of SHRDLU, from 1970: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU GPT-3 is wonderful,
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1) #AffirmativeAction #SchoolBusing #MinorityScholarships creation the #racist & oppressive ‘#HateCrime’ categories, creation of #CommunityReinvestmentAct , etc., are all CONSCIOUSLY created & utilized strategies by the Govt., u
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Late to the party, but...there's a big divide between people who think mathematical truths are things we discover ("maths talks about things that exist") or things that we create ("maths
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Widespread concerns over mass surveillance and the algorithms that interpret surveillance reveal popular belief in their efficacy. Such belief ironically legitimizes, rather than discredits, decisions institutions claim are based on
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Shel Silverstein was a hell of a writer. I mean, I thought so even before George RR Martin told me about "Uncle Shelby's ABZs" - a fantastically rude and incredible
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We lost a great American yesterday that I had to the honor to personally know. Ronald Rosser, Medal of Honor recipient who fought in Korea, passed away at age 90
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Hi, I am Kris. I have been working with computers since I am 14 years old, and I am over 50 now. I have been coding in Assembler, C, PHP,
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