Current Entries
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06/21/2023    A brown dwarf hotter than the Sun:

              https://phys.org/news/2023-06-discovery-brown-dwarf-hotter-sun.html

06/21/2023    In defense of Kirk:

              https://www.startrek.com/news/captains-week-in-defense-of-captain-kirk

06/20/2023    Iron Nitride Magnets:

              https://hackaday.com/2022/09/01/iron-nitrides-powerful-magnets-without-the-rare-earth-elements/

              Funniest comment: "At last! Magnets are more Irony."

06/20/2023    Mini WOPR:

              https://miniatua.com/work/wopr/

06/18/2023    Schwarzschild and the exact solution:

              https://4gravitons.com/2023/06/16/solutions-and-solutions/

06/15/2023    Where a program's config files should go on modern
              systems:

              https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/DotfilesWhereToday?showcomments#comments

              The modern preference is to store config files in
              "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/[pgm]", which usually ends up
              being ~/.config/[pgm].

06/12/2023    Excited He-4 nuclei do not appear to behave in the
              way that chiral effective theory predicts:

              https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-experiment-casts-doubt-on-the-leading-theory-of-the-nucleus-20230612/

              "To test the strong nuclear force, physicists turned to
              the helium-4 nucleus, which has two protons and two
              neutrons. When helium nuclei are excited, they grow like
              an inflating balloon until one of the protons pops off.
              Surprisingly, in a recent experiment, helium nuclei didn'''t
              swell according to plan: They ballooned more than expected
              before they burst. A measurement describing that
              expansion, called the form factor, is twice as large as
              theoretical predictions."

06/09/2023    Why elephants have whiskers on their trunks:

              https://phys.org/news/2023-06-elephants-whiskers-trunks.html

              "[T]he purpose of the whiskers [on an elephant's trunk]
              is to help the elephant gauge how much pressure to use
              when squeezing an object"

06/09/2023    World Book 2023:

              https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/06/rejoice-its-2023-and-you-can-still-buy-a-22-volume-paper-encyclopedia/

              We have an older one, and like it enormously.

06/09/2023    CSI Regency Ball:

              https://wronghands1.com/2023/06/09/csi-regency-ball/

              Related - Regency Novel or Pandemic, and Horror in
              the time of Austen:

              https://wronghands1.com/2020/05/26/regency-novel-or-pandemic-life/
              https://wronghands1.com/2022/10/14/horror-in-the-time-of-austen/

06/07/2023    An overview of motlen salt reactors:

              https://hackaday.com/2023/06/07/the-integral-molten-salt-reactor-and-the-benefits-of-having-a-liquid-fission-reactor/

Earlier Entries
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05/##/2023    https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/05/motd.txt
              https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/05/index.html

04/##/2023    https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/04/motd.txt
              https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/04/index.html

03/##/2023    https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/03/motd.txt
              https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/03/index.html

02/##/2023    https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/02/motd.txt
              https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/02/index.html

01/##/2023    https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/01/motd.txt
              https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/01/index.html

##/##/2022    https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/motd.txt
              https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/index.html