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February 15, 2019
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ZETTATECHNOLOGY There’s a process in linguistics called semantic generalization, whereby a word that means something specific evolves into a [...]
February 8, 2019
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February 1, 2019
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NANOTECHNOLOGY In 1959, Richard Feynman gave a lecture at Caltech entitled “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom” (here’s a [...]
January 25, 2019
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THE NOMINAL SOLAR RADIUS Last week, I told you about the classification system in use for main sequence stars. Today we’re going to talk [...]
January 18, 2019
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OH BE A FINE GIRL/GUY, KISS ME! Our Sun is a main sequence star, meaning it fuses hydrogen into helium within its core. The vast [...]
January 11, 2019
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January 4, 2019
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Welcome to another episode of Sciency Words, a special series here on Planet Pailly where we take a closer look at the definitions and [...]
December 14, 2018
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Welcome to another episode of Sciency Words, a special series here on Planet Pailly where we take a closer look at the definitions and [...]
December 7, 2018
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So I sort of screwed up my blogging agenda for this past week. I just had too much other stuff on my mind, and I guess I needed time to sort [...]
November 30, 2018
