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SETI Institute (@setiinstitute.bsky.social) | This mosaic of images taken on Oct. 6, 2008, by NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft shows an impact crater on Mercury named Hokusai.

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Why Millions of Mexicans Don’t Speak Spanish

15 May 2026 #GeneralKnowledge Mexico is home to 130 million people, and while Spanish is the de facto tongue, the country hosts a “Linguistic Multiverse” of 68 official indigenous languages. These aren’t dialects, they are the surviving operating systems of … Continue reading →

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Lab-made Cocoa – Part 4 of 4

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You’ve Seen Her Face THOUSANDS of Times & Here’s Why!

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In 1986 an astronomer trying to trace a 75 cent computer time discrepancy for 10 months eventually found a German hacker selling defense secrets to the KGB

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Roger Penrose and Brian Cox discuss ‘remarkable new evidence’ about the origins of the universe

23 May 2026 #bigbang #cosmology #physics Roger Penrose and Brian Cox discuss how Roger got interested in physics, the Big Bang, and the role of beauty in mathematics. Do you agree with Roger’s thoughts on string theory? With a free … Continue reading →

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This discovery changed human history by 350,000 years

21 May 2026 When did humans have the technology to make fire? Recently, the answer to that question has changed – pushing the date back from 50,000 years ago to 400,000 years ago. But how do we know this? Join … Continue reading →

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A grammatical murder mystery

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Why did Edo rename itself to Tokyo? Because… Kyoto 🤣

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Wales waking up in pure gold

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The sudsy secrets of soap

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This Tree Survived an Atomic Bomb — and Still Growing

19 May 2026 #humanrevealed #didyouknow #ginkgo Ginkgo biloba | vascular cambium | R-genes | flavonoids | 600 years no aging | Hiroshima survivor tree A single ginkgo tree survived the 1923 Tokyo earthquake and the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bomb. Scientists … Continue reading →

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