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Emperor Palpatine 20 Oct 2025, 4:00 am

Many things about Star Wars were not well planned out, but having a 37-year-old in old-age makeup play the Emperor in Return of the Jedi was such an incredible call.

Planetary Rings 17 Oct 2025, 4:00 am

If you don't know where you are on Earth, the angle of satellite dishes can help constrain your latitude. If some of them are pointing straight up, you're probably near the Equator, right under the ring.

Physics Paths 15 Oct 2025, 4:00 am

If nothing else, that reasoning definitely overturns syllogisms.

Physics Insight 13 Oct 2025, 4:00 am

When Galileo dropped two weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa, they put him in the history books. But when I do it, I get 'detained by security' for 'injuring several tourists.'

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