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Classifying games based on possible moves and winning strategies.
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The Mentally Scarring Public Service Announcement Tournament. With YouTube links, so you can experience the trauma yourself.
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'"If you were to predict the future on the basis of school achievement alone," Pinker writes, "the world would be a matriarchy."'
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A non-resonant method of slowing beams of paramagnetic atoms through carefully timed pulses
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"We report the cooling of an atomic ensemble with light, where each atom scatters only a single photon on average."
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Using the "slow light" trick to store pulses of light with lower uncertainty than usual.
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The same basic idea as the previous link, but in Canada rather than Japan.
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"I'd offer the hypothesis that any sufficiently advanced read/write technology will get used for two purposes: pornography and activism."
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'"If you were to predict the future on the basis of school achievement alone," Pinker writes, "the world would be a matriarchy."'
...until the first oil change came due. Envy is feminine distortion of masculine geed. One whines about the present, the other creates the future. A slighted woman will hate you forever. Men playing football smashing each other's faces into the mud will later go out for beers.
A world run by women stinks of soured breast milk and unchanged diapers as the best offspring are sacrificed to lend succor to the worst. Hush... I hear it scratching at my door even now.