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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

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Postmodern Academist @postmodernacademic.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Sorry I'm a bit late on the answer to question 3. Life is... um... crazy.

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Postmodern Academist @postmodernacademic.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Going forward, im going to be posting puzzles once a month rather than once every two weeks - basically, I'm going to run out of puzzles if I don't. In the meantime, I'm going to try to regularly post snack-sozed articles on topics of interest!

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I'm sorry for raining on this parade, but the "transgender mice" talking point is bullshit, but not because someone mistook "transgenic" for "transgender." The blog post that kicked it off (from a partisan bullshit website) listed a number of papers testing the effects of sex hormones on animals.

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Postmodern Academist @postmodernacademic.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Question 3: What is the smallest 10-digit number in base 10 which: -Contains all digits 0-9 -Is divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9 (not 7) Answer in 2 weeks! Answer to last week's question here! youtube.com/shorts/Fx6TE... Link to Question 2: bsky.app/profile/post...

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Postmodern Academist @postmodernacademic.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

So, this amazing thing called "life" happened, which means the solution to the current puzzle will have to wait until Saturday! On the other hand, that gives everyone another couple of days to answer.

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Postmodern Academist @postmodernacademic.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Great thoughts from Grant Sanderson on education. Easily applies to all subjects. Similar incident turned me away from music for 15 years. youtube.com/shorts/3uD_J...

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Music People Aren't Math People - Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown

YouTube video by Dwarkesh Patel

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

It looks like Kendrick has won for now but sources tell me Drake has a devastating rebuttal planned for his performance at the Kids’ Choice Awards

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Postmodern Academist @postmodernacademic.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Trivia Question 2: Two mathematicians Alice and Bob each think of an integer between 1 and 60, inclusive. Alice: "Is your number 1/2 of mine?" Bob: "I don't know. Is yours 1/2 of mine?" Alice: "I don't know." Bob: "Is your number twice mine?" Alice: "Yes." What are their numbers?

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Postmodern Academist @postmodernacademic.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Hi, everyone! Answer to last week's question - the closest planet to Earth, on average, is actually Mercury! And, interestingly, it's the closest to every other planet as well! pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...

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Venus is not Earth’s closest neighbor

Calculations and simulations confirm that on average, Mercury is the nearest planet to Earth—and to every other planet in the solar system.

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Postmodern Academist @postmodernacademic.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Just remember - when cruelty is policy, every act of love is an act of rebellion.

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Postmodern Academist @postmodernacademic.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

It strikes me that most people could name a bunch of science communicators, but not actual researchers. That's not to diminish science communication as much as to point out a disconnect. So, how many people can actually name five current working/publishing scientists and what they do?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/01/2025

i will say that we have never experienced anything like an administration trying to essentially freeze the activities of the entire federal government while making a series of illegal power grabs. genuinely unclear to me what kind of response, if any, these guys are generating against them

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Postmodern Academist @postmodernacademic.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

So, it's Saturday, which means it's trivia day (these will be Thursdays in the future). Today's trivia question - what planet, on average, is closest to Earth? Do not post the answer! DM me if you have an idea. (thanks to my wife's colleague for this one!)

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Postmodern Academist @postmodernacademic.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

When Mariner 4 sent the first digital image of Mars, engineers were too excited to wait for the computer to process an image, and instead colored the data in by hand. web.archive.org/web/20221231... By NASA/JPL/Dan Goods - NASA Photojournal, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...

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