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#2069 Wishlist Disappointed that they caved to fan pressure and went with Ruth Bader Ginsburg over Elena Kagan.
#2070 Trig Identities ARCTANGENT THETA = ENCHANT AT TARGET
#2071 Indirect Detection I'm like a prisoner in Plato's Cave, seeing only the shade you throw on the wall.
#2072 Evaluating Tech Things Also known as the Black Mirror-Mythbusters scale.
#2073 Kilogram I'm glad to hear they're finally redefining the meter to be exactly three feet.
#2074 Airplanes and Spaceships Despite having now taken three months longer than the airplane people, we're making disappointingly little progress toward the obvious next stage of vehicle: The Unobtanium-hulled tunneling ship from the 2003 film 'The Core.'
#2075 Update Your Address This is my four-digit PIN. It was passed down to me by my father, and someday I will pass it on to you. Unless we figure out how to update it, but that sounds complicated.
#2076 Horror Movies 2 When I was a kid, someone told me the end of The Giver was ambiguous, which surprised me. I had just assumed Jonah died--because the book had a medal on the cover, and I knew grown-ups liked stories where sad stuff happens at the end for no reason.
#2077 Heist But he has a hat AND a toolbox! Where could someone planning a heist get THOSE?
#2078 Popper At least, I don't think there's evidence. My claim that there's no evidence hasn't been falsified. At least, not that I know of.
#2079 Alpha Centauri And let's be honest, it's more like two and a half stars. Proxima is barely a star and barely bound to the system.
#2080 Cohort and Age Effects Younger people get very few joint replacements, yet they're also getting more than older people did at the same age. This means you can choose between 'Why are millennials getting so (many/few) joint replacements?' depending on which trend fits your current argument better.
#2081 Middle Latitudes Snowy blizzards are fun, but so are warm sunny beaches, so we split the difference by having lots of icy wet slush!
#2082 Mercator Projection The other great lakes are just water on the far side of Canada Island. If you drive north from the Pacific northwest you actually cross directly into Alaska, although a few officials--confused by the Mercator distortion--have put up border signs.
#2083 Laptop Issues Hang on, we got a call from the feds. They say we can do whatever with him, but the EPA doesn't want that laptop in the ocean. They're sending a team.
#2084 FDR June 21st, 365, the date of the big Mediterranean earthquake and tsunami, lived in infamy for a few centuries before fading. Maybe the trick is a catchy rhyme; the '5th of November' thing is still going strong over 400 years later.
#2085 arXiv Both arXiv and archive.org are invaluable projects which, if they didn't exist, we would dismiss as obviously ridiculous and unworkable.
#2086 History Department When we take into account the recent discovery of previously-unstudied history in the 1750s, this year may have been an outright loss.
#2087 Rocket Launch NASA tries to coordinate launch timing with the Care Bears' cloud castle, but unfortunately sometimes collisions with stray Care Bears are unavoidable, so they just try to make the fairings sturdy and hope for a glancing impact.
#2088 Schwarzschild's Cat Cats can be smaller than the critical limit, but they're unobservable. If one shrinks enough that it crosses the limit, it just appears to get cuter and cuter as it slowly fades from view.
#2089 Christmas Eve Eve It turns out that saying "Oh, so THAT'S why they call it Boxing Day" is a good way to get punched a second time.
#2090 Feathered Dinosaur Venn Diagram My pet theory is that in real life, the kid at the beginning of Jurassic Park who made fun of the 'six-foot turkey' never got a talking-to from Dr. Grant, and grew up to produce several of the movie's sequels.
#2091 Million, Billion, Trillion You can tell most people don’t really assign an absolute meaning to these numbers because in some places and time periods, “billion” has meant 1,000x what it's meant in others, and a lot of us never even noticed.
#2092 Consensus New Year The biggest jump is at 11:00am EST (4:00pm UTC) when midnight reaches the UTC+8 time zone. That time zone, which includes China, is home to a quarter of the world's population. India and Sri Lanka (UTC+5:30) put us over the 50% mark soon after.
#2093 Reminders The good news is that if the number of work and friend relationships you have exceeds your willingness to do the bare minimum to keep up with everyone's life events and stuff, one way or another that problem eventually solves itself.
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