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Meteor Storm Went from Sizzle to Fizzle
The May Camelopardalids meteor outburst turned out to be a dud, because meteor storm prediction is not a sure thing, unlike, for example, calculating the next e…
Three Financial Lessons from Thoreau
#240 What Henry David Thoreau can teach us about calculating costs, profits, benefits and living a life free of "quiet desperation." Thanks to Blinkist and Link…
The Quest for Longitude
Maritime history's greatest scientific breakthrough was working out longitude, the distance (measured in degrees, minutes, and seconds) of how far a point is, e…
