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I'm an agent of the natural world
Diaries published: 506 (13 days since last diary on Fri Nov 24, 2023 at 10:24 PM PST)
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Most Recommended Diary: Ingenious solar distiller makes fresh water from seawater for less than 1¢ a gallon, 359 comments, 964 recommends
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I honestly don’t remember when or how I found out how human reproduction works. By the time my mother made my father have “The Talk” with me — because that is how that dynamic generally works, errr, I’ve been told — he asked me if I knew how that went...
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on Fri Nov 24, 2023 at 10:24 PM PST
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Last year, on October 9, we on Earth witnessed the most luminous celestial event ever recorded, by far. It was a gamma ray burst (GRB) at least 10x as bright as any other example ever seen, and it lasted 70x longer than any other known GRB. This was...
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on Fri Nov 17, 2023 at 07:34 PM PST
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The hospital psych intern asked me a very good question over the phone a few days ago. “Why? Why did they send her home?” He didn’t really expect me to answer that. It’s not even a real question. If you’d heard that 6 inches of blue gumballs fell in...
by skralyx
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on Sun Nov 05, 2023 at 08:28 PM PST
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In 1891, young Dr. William B. Coley had become frustrated with cancer. He was especially saddened by the case of one of his earliest patients, an 18-year-old who had some pain and swelling in her hand in August of the previous year that kept getting...
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on Sun Oct 15, 2023 at 08:24 PM PDT
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How big is the Universe? Humanity made it all the way into the 1920s having no idea. Many people at that time thought that the Milky Way was the entire Universe. Yes, big, but not crazy big. Others thought that maybe those spirals and smudges we could...
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on Wed Oct 04, 2023 at 09:01 PM PDT
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It’s pretty easy to get the salt out of seawater. All you have to do is boil it, freeze it, or just wait for rain! But those things take a lot of energy and/or time that many of us don’t have to spare. So people have been working on low-cost and...
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on Sat Sep 30, 2023 at 08:51 PM PDT
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