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06/28/2024    Two additional Milky Way satellite galaxy's have been found:

              https://phys.org/news/2024-06-astronomers-milky-satellite-galaxy-candidates.html

06/26/2024    A puzzling excess of cosmic deuterons:

              https://physics.aps.org/articles/v17/s74

06/24/2024    Oscan:

              https://itsallgreektoanna.wordpress.com/2024/06/10/epigraphic-baking-oscan/

              "[T]he Oscan language is closely related to Latin ...
              - some letters are pretty similar, but others are totally
              different, and the whole thing is also written
              right-to-left. In fact, the two alphabets are also quite
              closely related, as both were derived from the alphabet
              used to write the Etruscan language[.]"

06/25/2024    What a 6th season of SG:A might have looked like:

              https://www.gateworld.net/news/2024/06/stargate-atlantis-season-six-this-was-the-plan/

06/24/2024    8 reasons why CDs are better than streaming music:

              https://www.headphonesty.com/2024/06/cds-still-rule-over-streaming/

06/24/2024    Anti-viral properties of wood:

              https://www.sci.news/medicine/antiviral-wood-13031.html

              "[R]esults ... with an enveloped coronavirus showed that
              pine, spruce, birch and alder need one hour to completely
              reduce the virus' ability to infect cells, with eucalyptus
              and oak needing two hours.

              Pine had the fastest onset of antiviral activity,
              beginning after five minutes. Spruce came in second,
              showing a sharp drop in infectivity after 10 minutes.

              For a nonenveloped enterovirus, [] researchers found that
              incubation on oak and spruce surfaces resulted in a loss
              of infectivity within about an hour, with oak having an
              onset time of 7.5 minutes and spruce after 60 minutes.

              Pine, birch and eucalyptus reduced the virus' infectivity
              after four hours, and alder showed no antiviral effect."

06/23/2024    How the square root of 2 became a number:

              https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-square-root-of-2-became-a-number-20240621/

06/23/2024    Mt. Hood Vision Pro desktop picture:

              https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/mthoodwallpaper

06/23/2024    Why some franchises stay great:

              https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/why-some-franchises-go-downhill-while

06/13/2024    Gravitational-wave memory:

              https://physics.aps.org/articles/v17/95

06/13/2024    What could make a baby bison white:

              https://phys.org/news/2024-06-baby-bison-white.html

06/03/2024    Celebrating the twins of the Standard Model:

              https://profmattstrassler.com/2024/05/29/celebrating-the-standard-model-the-twins-were-made-of/

06/03/2024    GRB's may not be the primary source of heavy elements:

              https://phys.org/news/2024-05-universe-biggest-explosions-elements-mystery.html

              "Rapid neutron-capture process, or r-process, is where the
              nuclei (or cores) of heavier elements such as iron capture
              many neutron particles in a short time. They [] rapidly
              grow in mass, yielding much heavier elements. For
              r-process to work, however, you need the right conditions:
              high density, high temperature, and a large number of
              available free neutrons. Gamma ray bursts happen to
              provide these necessary conditions.

              ...

              A recent study investigated one long gamma ray burst in
              particular, GRB 221009. This has been dubbed the BOAT -
              the brightest of all time. ... The JWST team [] inferred
              the number of heavy elements produced during the BOAT
              explosion. They found no indication of elements produced
              by the r-process. ... These findings suggest that gamma
              ray bursts may not be the hoped-for crucial source of the
              universe's heavy elements. Instead, there must be a source
              or sources still out there."

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