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I don't mean to make anybody's Lenten fast more challenging, but it's a scientific fact¹ that eating chocolate makes you more likely to win a Nobel Prize.

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¹ Alright, it's not a scientific fact, but: www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazin...

Adding to what Dan and others have said: Measuring air quality at diplomatic posts in places like Beijing, Delhi, and Lahore, using EPA standard technology, and openly sharing it with the public, has been a force pushing along progress toward better air quality in all those locations.

The Largest Sofa You Can Move Around a Corner | Quanta Magazine A new proof reveals the answer to the decades-old “moving sofa” problem. It highlights how even the simplest optimization problems can have counterintuitive answers.

www.quantamagazine.org/the-largest-... Solution of the sofa problem

To the kind people offering me their seats on Metro Bus: I am not that old

A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)

The Nazgûl were way under-used in the Siege of Gondor.

A list of bands in order of efficacy:

3. Placebo
2. The Cure
1. Prevention

How come my Twitter data archive didn't include the accounts I followed

Why Pakistan should not privatize DISCOs and other natural monopolies