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9 Conspiracy Theories We Wish QAnon People Would Obsess Over Instead

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2 months ago

9 Conspiracy Theories We Wish QAnon People Would Obsess Over Instead

Jody Serrano

Physicists Just Made The Most Precise Measurement Ever Of Gravity’s Strength

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3 years ago

Physicists Just Made The Most Precise Measurement Ever Of Gravity’s Strength

Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Maths Book Sells For Record $5 Million (Or The Price Of Like Two University Textbooks)

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4 years ago

Maths Book Sells For Record $5 Million (Or The Price Of Like Two University Textbooks)

Eve Peyser

The first edition of Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica was sold for $US3.7 million ($5 million) at Christie earlier this week, becoming the most expensive printed science book ever sold at auction — [insert joke about outrageous university textbook prices]. Albert Einstein described Newton’s seminal 1687 work as “perhaps the…