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Are there other human traits like light skin which people developed to adapt to the "new" environment they settled in?
I'm referring to the human race evolving in the African continent and then migrating to the rest of the world....
xkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas ( xkcd.com )
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Is the heat produced by fossil and nuclear fuel negligible?
We often talk about the climate impact based on greenhouse gases, but extracting fuel from the ground and using it in exothermal processes of course also releases energy as heat....
Sleeping Beauty Trolley Problem ( mander.xyz )
OC just for you! ♥️
Black holes could come in 'perfect pairs' in an ever expanding universe ( phys.org )
The real double-slit quantum eraser they don't want you to know about! ( mander.xyz )
The recent post made me fear that a lot of you are taking this "monkey looks at double-slits" meme, which was only ever supposed to be a funny monkey meme, actually seriously. Honorable mention goes to @kromem, whose 12 posts on the topic, insisting that the quantum eraser experiment (but not the delayed-choice quantum eraser!)...
18+ What irritates you the most with your own language?
Mine is people who separate words when they write. I'm Norwegian, and we can string together words indefinetly to make a new word. The never ending word may not make any sense, but it is gramatically correct...
What was a profound moment that a video game caused you to experience, and why?
The moment that inspired this question:...
What is something that sounds 100% false but is actually 100% true?