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The Physics of Quicksand
The next time you find yourself wandering through a wet, sandy, unfamiliar place, it might be wise to keep an eye out for that exotic menace known as quicksand. If [Continue reading…]
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The Truth About Truth Serum
Popular culture makes gratuitous use of powerful lie-repelling agents known as Truth Serums. They are usually depicted as injected drugs which strongly inhibit a subject’s ability to lie, causing him or [Continue reading…]
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What Came Before the Big Bang?
For most of modern cosmology, the Big Bang has been treated as the opening moment of everything we can observe. It has served as the point where space begins to [Continue reading…]