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  1. Is This Real?

    Daphne Xu's blog Author:  Daphne Xu Blog About:  News Item Humor / Jokes / Cuteness Science and Medicine Taxonomy upgrade extras:  Ignorance Numbers Or is this an Onion-type article? 56% of Americans think that Arabic numbers shouldn't be taught ...

    - 2019/05/28 - 10:56am - 26 comments

  2. DNA Rant

    Daphne Xu's blog Author:  Daphne Xu Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Science and Medicine Taxonomy upgrade extras:  DNA Rant suspension disbelief suspension of disbelief Whenever I encounter a story involving science fiction transform ...

    - 2019/11/06 - 12:15am - 27 comments

  3. Starlift Video

    Author:  Daphne Xu Daphne Xu's blog Blog About:  Science and Medicine These were incomplete comments about a video about "Starlift" that was suggested. I added a few things, but it's nowhere complete as a review of the video. ...

    - 2020/01/12 - 11:12am - 9 comments

  4. Scientific Consensus aka Head Chopped Off

    Daphne Xu's blog Author:  Daphne Xu Caution:  CAUTION Blog About:  Autobiographical Science and Medicine The latest about experts, "experts", and talking heads leads me to risk having my head chopped off again, about scientific consensus. S ...

    - 2020/04/02 - 1:01pm - 24 comments

  5. NPR Interview on Fauci

    Author:  Daphne Xu Daphne Xu's blog Blog About:  Science and Medicine NPR has an interview about Dr. Anthony Fauci. The interviewee is Michael Specter, writer for the New Yorker and bioengineering instructor at Stanford University. He also wrote abou ...

    - 2020/04/17 - 1:23pm - 5 comments

  6. Morning Sky

    Daphne Xu's blog Author:  Daphne Xu Blog About:  Science and Medicine Taxonomy upgrade extras:  Sky Mars Venus Betegeuse Rigel Orion Sirius Early morning-- before 6am. Rising before the sun: a bright Venus. The first time I saw it, it was next to the ...

    - 2020/09/22 - 12:22am - 4 comments

  7. Sequences

    Author:  Daphne Xu Daphne Xu's blog Blog About:  Science and Medicine Taxonomy upgrade extras:  math Math Silliness 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47,...-- What's the pattern of this sequence? 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, ...

    - 2021/04/11 - 8:56am - 18 comments

  8. Value

    Author:  Daphne Xu Daphne Xu's blog Blog About:  Science and Medicine Taxonomy upgrade extras:  math Gold Conversion I'm curious to know how much gold would be the equivalent of 10 15 (a quadrillion) dollars. ...

    - 2021/04/26 - 2:15am - 11 comments

  9. Sense of Scale

    Author:  Daphne Xu Daphne Xu's blog Blog About:  Science and Medicine Taxonomy upgrade extras:  atoms A couple years ago, I saw a photo of Jupiter and Uranus, magnified the same, juxtaposed next to each other. Uranus was a dot down at the bottom next ...

    - 2021/05/22 - 9:16am - 4 comments

  10. Looking-Glass Approach

    Author:  Daphne Xu Daphne Xu's blog Blog About:  Humor / Jokes / Cuteness Science and Medicine I was just reminded of "Through the Looking Glass", a scene in which if you approached someone, he got farther from you. Trying to chase an FTL s ...

    - 2021/08/25 - 8:46am - 12 comments

  11. An Electron as the USS FTL0476

    Author:  Daphne Xu Daphne Xu's blog Blog About:  Science and Medicine Taxonomy upgrade extras:  CAUTION: Physics A photon scatters off an electron. Or perhaps an electron scatters off a photon. Or perhaps an electron and photon scatter. Whatever you ...

    - 2021/09/10 - 2:42pm

  12. All primes are odd.

    Author:  Daphne Xu Daphne Xu's blog Blog About:  Humor / Jokes / Cuteness Science and Medicine Taxonomy upgrade extras:  CAUTION: Lame attempt at humor CAUTION: Math Two is the only even prime number. That makes it the odd prime out. ...

    - 2021/10/13 - 10:24am - 8 comments

  13. Caught Between Time

    Author:  Daphne Xu Daphne Xu's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Science and Medicine I'm currently watching/playing an interactive DVD game, a visual novel. The protagonist and a time-patrol agent are currently caught betwee ...

    - 2022/08/11 - 9:34pm - 4 comments

  14. Sky View

    Author:  Daphne Xu Daphne Xu's blog Blog About:  News Item Science and Medicine In the sky to the west, during and after sunset, Venus and Jupiter are visible and close to each other. I think that they're still getting closer. I read somewhere t ...

    - 2023/03/05 - 3:52pm - 6 comments

  15. Traveling...

    Author:  Daphne Xu Daphne Xu's blog Blog About:  Science and Medicine Taxonomy upgrade extras:  Nerd... to Pluto vs. traveling to Proxima Centauri ...

    - 2023/12/05 - 4:54pm

  16. Ozone

    Author:  Daphne Xu Daphne Xu's blog Blog About:  Humor / Jokes / Cuteness Science and Medicine I first learned this about molecules in fifth grade: a molecule is the smallest amount of a material that has the properties of that material. The textbook ...

    - 2024/03/28 - 11:45pm - 3 comments