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My goal is to spend less time in my "...snow white cube containing only the bare necessities, a computer, and a large library of treatises, maps, and precise scale models*."

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Which mathematicians died very young or in a tragic way?
Jul 18 '17
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Which mathematician traveled to and moved in with each collaborator?
Oct 18 '20
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When was the earliest use of log-log plots to demonstrate power-law behavior?
Mar 25 '16
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How did Newton and Kepler (actually) do it?
Mar 25 '16
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What's that on Euler's head? Does the head covering shown in Emanuel Handmann 1753 painting signify scholarship?
Mar 31 '19
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Who first reported the Crab pulsar's pulsing but was dismissed by an astronomer?
Jan 1 '20
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What exactly was Lagrange's "grave mistake" with respect to rotating bodies under hydrostatic equilibrium?
Jan 19 '20
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Was there an intentional purge of all audio recordings of Alan Turing?
Jun 25 '18
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What calculation did Halley or anyone else do to estimate the effects of Jupiter and Saturn on Halley's comet's return in 1758/9?
Mar 11 '19
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When and how did usage of the term Centigrade give way to Celsius? Are/were they in fact numerically identical?
Feb 1 '19
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How did the Apollo computers evaluate transcendental functions like sine, arctangent, log?
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What makes Ada the language of choice for the ISS's safety-critical systems?
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What aspects of image preparation workflows can lead to accidents like Boris Johnson's No. 10 tweet's 'hidden message'?
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Are there any satellites in geosynchronous but not geostationary orbits?
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If a massive object like Jupiter flew past the Earth how close would it need to come to pull people off of the surface?
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What can the KSP game actually teach about spaceflight and orbital mechanics, and what are its limitations?
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Could "peak Apollo levels" of support have gotten NASA astronauts to Mars in the 1980's?

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