Knowledge Index

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HOW THINGS WORK (HowThingsWork_):
Tying a knot in emergency situations. 🪢

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Wonder of Science (wonderofscience):
In the world's largest vacuum chamber, a bowling ball and feathers are used for a real-life demonstration of a concept Galileo first proposed over 400 years ago.

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Min Choi (minchoi):
It was only Day 1 of CES 2025.

And the announcements are already mind blowing.

10 wild reveals:

1. BYD's supercar Yangwang U9 jumping 6 meters forward using "jumping suspension"

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Taha N Alasemi (tahaalasemi):
This pump doesn’t needs electricity or fuel to work 👌🏻

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https://www.mercatus.org/research/policy-briefs/fiscal-dominance-how-worried-should-we-be

Mercatus Center

Fiscal Dominance: How Worried Should We Be?

INTRODUCTIONWhen new Prime Minister Liz Truss’s surprise plans to raise fiscal spending and cut taxes were revealed by Kwasi Kwarteng, the United Kingdom’s chancellor of the exchequer, on September 23, 2022, bond markets crashed. Primary budget surpluses…

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_wall_(financial)

business term describing an information barrier

Chinese wall

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvinism

exaggerated patriotism and a belligerent belief in national superiority

Chauvinism

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorandum_of_understanding

Memorandum of understanding

agreement between two (bilateral) or more (multilateral) parties

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A mortality timer based on nucleolar size triggers nucleolar integrity loss and catastrophic genomic instability

Brutal.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-024-00754-5

Nature

Nature Aging - Gutierrez and Tyler investigate the limits of replicative lifespan in yeast. The authors show that nucleolar expansion during aging is a mortality timer. Enlargement of nucleoli...

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Ray Kurzweil describes AGI and the coming singularity

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Nature is Amazing ☘️ (AMAZlNGNATURE):
Giant day gecko shedding 🦎🦎

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Jason Smith - 上官杰文 (ShangguanJiewen): A molten salt photothermal power station enters operation in Qinghai. These are more expensive to build than a typical solar farm but generate electricity 24 hours each day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMSR-LF1

TMSR-LF1 (液态燃料钍基熔盐实验堆; "liquid fuel thorium-based molten salt experimental reactor") is a 2 MWt molten salt reactor (MSR) pilot plant located in northwest China.

TMSR-LF1

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-salt_reactor

class of nuclear fission reactors with molten salt as the primary coolant or the fuel

Molten-salt reactor

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt

salt in the liquid phase due to elevated temperature

Molten salt

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Jason Smith - 上官杰文 (ShangguanJiewen):
A molten salt photothermal power station enters operation in Qinghai.

These are more expensive to build than a typical solar farm but generate electricity 24 hours each day.

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