Mental Floss

11 Awesome Artifacts You Can See at the Explorers Club

Explorers Club members have donated a strange assortment of artifacts to the club’s archives. Here are a few of the oddities. The club first met in 1904 as an unofficial gathering of like-minded men ...
IEEE

Upper limits to the number of Oort Cloud objects based on serendipitous occultation events search in X-rays

Abstract: Using all the RXTE archival data of Sco X-1 and GX 5-1, which amount to about 1.6 Ms in total, we searched for possible occultation events caused by Oort Cloud objects. The detection ...
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Car names, numbers & consists

Previously published 1963 under title: Car names and consists. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001 ...
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Life Span of Mollusca (numbers 55-74)

Rosewater, Joseph. 1972. "Life Span of Mollusca (numbers 55-74)." In The Biological Data Book. Altman, P. L. and Dittmer, D. S., editors. 234–235. Bethesda ...
GitHub

max-thoma/log-based-td-generation

Given is the following MQTT message log of an IoT device: topic: application/bulb/status; payload: On; retain: true topic: application/bulb/status; payload: Off ...