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The Biggest Bomb

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On November 4, 2021
Popular movements in the late 1950s pressed toward the Limited Test-Ban Treaty (LTBT), signed in 1963, which prohibited atmospheric testing. It was preceded by a voluntary test moratorium by the United States and the Soviet Union from 1958 through 1961. At the time, the development...
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Nature Thought Of It First

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Credit: T. PriemelA scanning electron micrograph (left) shows part of a microchannel within the glue-secreting organ of a mussel. The channel is lined with cilia (blue). Mussels release adhesive protein sacs (green) from their tissues (yellow) into the microchannels. The sacs rupture, forming a fluid...

The Two Sixties

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On October 14, 2021
Paul's post makes a number of good points, but slips up seriously on one. For a long time I’ve thought that it would make more sense to describe “the Sixties” as the period between November 22, 1963 and August 8, 1974, rather than the literal...
I see we need a thread to discuss and speculate on what the problem is with everyone's favorite social media. It seems to be a DNS problem, which is basic and fundamental. The Facebook empire has been extinguished from the internet. The question is, of...
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