This only works because it exerts your legs more. It'd feel like walking on sand.

evan loves worf The vast majority of the error here comes from a weird human bias toward answering "50%" to every question. If you "stretch" every answer 2x away from the 50% line (which I did here quickly in Photoshop), the estimates are not actually that far off!

Are any adults actually able to take this posture in an emergency? Even if the seat in front of you is upright, you have about 25" of clearance in coach on a Boeing 737. Proportionally, that would imply that every adult in this cartoon is less than 4'6" tall.

I am pleased to inform you that Calvin & Hobbes is still a part of modern childhoods.

The 7am session

Interesting quote from NASA Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman: "I hope we're forgotten". He says that if Artemis II is forgotten, it means that humans have reached Mars, reached the moons of Saturn, and perhaps invented something we haven't yet dreamed of. 📷 NASA

Io is the world that science fiction imagined in the 1950s. (“Steeple mountain”, artist’s conception)

Prediction markets reward insider trading. This is a good thing if you want to reliably learn an outcome as soon as possible. It will be a bad thing if insiders have financial incentivizes to fix outcomes.

Hog density is oddly correlated with land price per acre (notice rural Iowa in particular). Why?

"Geodesy": the science of measuring the Earth's shape, orientation, gravity field, and the changes thereof.

Good morning. We live in a solar system.

when you come across a paper you wrote 20 yrs ago

This is the "error function", which describes the solution for half-space diffusion (e.g., heat flow), It is proven that there is no closed-form solution to this integral, but if you integrate to infinity you can prove that it equals the square root of pi.

How Lunar Photography Brought the Heavens Down to Earth nytimes.com/interactive/20… via @NYTimes

Besides college, I have only ever lived in the red.

Somebody please make these commercially available.