| 1. | | Why it's so challenging to land upright on the moon (nytimes.com) |
| 198 points by Brajeshwar on March 4, 2024 | 300 comments |
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| 2. | | Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight (flightradar24.com) |
| 1544 points by eatmyshardz on Feb 1, 2023 | 397 comments |
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| 3. | | The Science of Sword-Swallowing (2007) (twistedphysics.typepad.com) |
| 98 points by unpredict on Jan 27, 2023 | 34 comments |
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| 4. | | NIST is announcing that SHA-1 should be phased out by Dec. 31, 2030 (nist.gov) |
| 443 points by say_it_as_it_is on Dec 15, 2022 | 205 comments |
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| 5. | | An ancient Persian way to keep cool (2021) (bbc.com) |
| 178 points by thunderbong on Nov 23, 2022 | 66 comments |
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| 6. | | How to prove you know a secret without giving it away (quantamagazine.org) |
| 334 points by jnord on Oct 12, 2022 | 160 comments |
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| 7. | | How do palm trees survive hurricanes? (2017) (indefenseofplants.com) |
| 134 points by graderjs on Aug 9, 2022 | 60 comments |
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| 8. | | How do you power a rocket engine? (everydayastronaut.com) |
| 192 points by Jarlakxen on April 30, 2022 | 82 comments |
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| 9. | | Slovio, an international simplified Slavic language (slovio.com) |
| 243 points by vector_spaces on March 4, 2022 | 246 comments |
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| 10. | | John Locke’s recipe for Pancakes (2021) (rarecooking.com) |
| 283 points by pepys on Jan 30, 2022 | 155 comments |
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| 11. | | Poe’s best-selling book during his lifetime was a guide to seashells (atlasobscura.com) |
| 138 points by pseudolus on May 29, 2021 | 38 comments |
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| 12. | | Peter van de Kamp: An astronomer who was wrong in all the right ways (sciencefocus.com) |
| 23 points by noizejoy on Feb 18, 2020 | 2 comments |
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| 13. | | How strong is your knot? (news.mit.edu) |
| 286 points by chmaynard on Jan 2, 2020 | 132 comments |
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| 14. | | Introduction to Stochastic Processes [pdf] (utexas.edu) |
| 284 points by m4rtyr on Dec 15, 2019 | 12 comments |
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| 15. | | Enough with the Dead Butterflies (2017) (emilydamstra.com) |
| 263 points by dorkwood on Dec 14, 2019 | 28 comments |
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| 16. | | Caroll Spinney has died (nytimes.com) |
| 153 points by kevinconaway on Dec 8, 2019 | 29 comments |
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| 17. | | Neural correlates of the DMT experience assessed with multivariate EEG (nature.com) |
| 346 points by bookofjoe on Nov 20, 2019 | 197 comments |
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| 18. | | The cognitive costs of air pollution (patrickcollison.com) |
| 1020 points by jseliger on Nov 18, 2019 | 285 comments |
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