Quantum mechanics is weird. For nigh on a century, the mysteries of quanta and quantum interactions have eluded the brightest minds of several generations. One of the progenitors of the field, Richard Feynman, once famously quipped, “I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.” For nigh on a century, the mysteries of […]
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No matter what you call it—bier, øl, пиво, ビール, 啤酒, בירה, cwrw—beer is one of humanity’s oldest creations. It is believed that this alcoholic drink has been a staple of civilization since the Neolithic Revolution (c. 10,000 BC), with detailed accounts of large-scale production dating to Old Babylonian Mesopotamia (c. 1800 BC). However, when dealing
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With 574 recognized tribes in the United States alone, the Indigenous people of North America have a diverse population, diverse culture, and a diversity of languages. At the turn of the twenty-first century, there were approximately 210 Native American languages still spoken in North America, according to linguist Michael Krauss in his paper “Status of
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Everyone knows the color wheel; red, yellow, and blue combine to make orange, green, and purple, all of which combine to make the spectrum. While this system works well for understanding pigments, it breaks down when considering mixtures of light, where red and green make yellow and white is a tertiary color. To explain these
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