Articles by pfdietz
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The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein (scottaaronson.blog)

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Erdos Problem #728 Solved (Mostly) Autonomously by AI (mathstodon.xyz)

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Compiler Engineering In Practice – Part 2: Why is a compiler? (chisophugis.github.io)

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Objects ejected from nearby stars in our solar system now [video] (youtube.com)

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Higher Thermal Conductivty Than Diamond Found in Boron Arsenide (sciencedaily.com)

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Why humanity will shrink far sooner than we thought [video] (youtube.com)

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Planet Y: New Earth sized hypothetical planet in the Kuiper Belt (livescience.com)

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Tech can fix most of our problems (if we let it) (noahpinion.blog)

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The Source of Europe's Mild Climate (2006) (americanscientist.org)

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Standard Thermal: Energy Storage 500x Cheaper Than Batteries (austinvernon.site)

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New Study Solves the Bronze Age 'Tin Problem' [video] (youtube.com)

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Fervo Energy Drills 15,000', 520 F Geothermal Well in 16 Drilling Days (businesswire.com)

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Plato got virtually everything wrong (2018) (prospectmagazine.co.uk)

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Colibactin, the bacterial genotoxin implicated in colon cancer in young adults (opb.org)

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Why Are Birthrates Plummeting Worldwide? [video] (youtube.com)

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What It Would Take for the U.S. Dollar to Collapse (investopedia.com)

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Thermal Ca^2/Mg^2 Exchange Reactions for CO2 Removal (2024) (chemrxiv.org)

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Background Oriented Schlieren (2018) (petapixel.com)

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Giant redwoods: largest trees 'thriving in UK' (bbc.com)

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Everything We Know About the Brazil Air Crash [video] (youtube.com)

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Coal deposition peak not caused by delay in fungal evolution (2015) (pnas.org)

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A possible direct exposure of the Earth to the cold dense interstellar medium (nature.com)

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How many of our "facts" about society, health, and the economy are fake? (noahpinion.blog)

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Thermal Reach Enhancement for Hot Rock Geothermal (spe.org)

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Global Energy Storage Market Records Biggest Jump yet (BNEF) (bnef.com)

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Candle-Powered LED Lantern [video] (youtube.com)

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JWST finds no r-process signature at brightest ever gamma ray burst source (nature.com)

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Near disaster on Airbus due to subtle software issue [video] (youtube.com)

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Why Nick Bostrom Hopes the Search for ET Finds Nothing (2008) [pdf] (nickbostrom.com)

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Byford Dolphin Diving Bell Accident (1983) (wikipedia.org)

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The largest landslide in the world (2021) (usgs.gov)

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Passing Stars Altered Earths Orbital Elements Making Past Climates Uncertain (psi.edu)

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Large-scale electricity storage (2023) (royalsociety.org)

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NuScale Lays off 40% of its Staff (huffpost.com)

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Minimum Cost Design for Space Operations (1998) [pdf] (quarkweb.com)

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NuScale/UAMPS Carbon Free Power Project Is Terminated (nuscalepower.com)

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Low dose radiation cancer 2x worse than predicted by LNT model (bmj.com)

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Expander graphs and their applications (2006) [pdf] (ams.org)

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Build your own zero-emission electricity supply (model.energy)

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Vast announces first commercial space station (vastspace.com)

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Talk by Helion's David Kirtley at Princeton on FRC Scaling (princeton.edu)

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The Potential of Direct Air Capture Using Adsorbents in Cold Climates (cell.com)

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Defects found in two key components of ITER (world-nuclear-news.org)

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The Last Naval Battle of World War 2 (2018)