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Today is a mathematical date we won't see again for 78 years.
10/24/26
10² + 24² = 26²
It's called a Pythagorean Triple Day. There are infinitely many Pythagorean triples, but only 12 dates this century satisfy the equation.Today is the last.
Next one: March 4, 2105.
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#OnThisDay Oct 24 in 2005, civil rights icon Rosa Parks died at age 92. Parks gave new impetus to the rights movement in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Ala., bus. #OTD
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Between June 2024 and January 2025, a full 62% of commercial honey bee colonies in the United States died, according to an extensive survey.
As soon as scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) caught wind of the die-offs, they sprang into action—but their efforts were slowed by a series of federal funding cuts and layoffs. 6 months later, USDA scientists finally identified a culprit.
According to a preprint posted last June, nearly all the dead colonies tested positive for bee viruses spread by parasitic mites. Alarmingly, every single one of the mites the researchers screened was resistant to amitraz, the only viable mite-specific pesticide—or miticide—of its kind left in humans’ arsenal.
Tracking the rise of miticide resistance is critical, experts say. Honey bees pollinate more than 90 commercial crops in the U.S., generate between $20 billion and $30 billion in agricultural revenue, and play a key role in keeping the U.S. food supply stable.
Learn more on #NationalHoneyBeeDay: scim.ag/3TW8UmR
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A Rubik's Cube is a graph with 43 quintillion vertices.
Every arrangement is a vertex; every legal twist is an edge. Solving the cube means finding a short path back to one special state: home.
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e≈2.718281828459…
an irrational and transcendental number (e) appears wherever change happens continuously.
It describes growth, defines the natural logarithm, emerges from an infinite series.
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The Devil Horns Solar Eclipse
Is one of the rarest sunrise ever photographed and was stunning.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The is an AI-generated video based on a photo by photographer Elias Chasiotis during the eclipse in December, 2019.
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Blues powerhouse Willie Mae Big Mama Thornton recorded the original version of Hound Dog in Los Angeles back on August 13, 1952. Written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and backed by Johnny Otis's band, Thornton's gritty, powerful performance topped the R&B charts for seven weeks and sold half a million copies long before Elvis Presley put his own spin on the track in 1956.
When you listen to the incredible roots of 1950s rock and blues today, how does Big Mama Thornton's original version of Hound Dog compare to Elvis Presley's 1956 cover for you? See her performance👇️
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If you’ve not seen this episode, go find it on YouTube. It was such a fun thing to participate in thanks to @Dino_in_Vegas and @Haunted00Horse
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🚨 Theories That Turned Into Reality: The Universe Isn’t What We Thought 🚨
Some ideas in physics sound so crazy at first that no one believes them… until the universe itself proves them true. That’s the part that gives you chills. Antimatter was once just a strange equation on paper in 1928 — four years later, scientists actually found it. Gravitational waves were described in 1916, and the first math hinting at black holes appeared the same year… yet it took decades before we finally confirmed they were real. And the Higgs Boson? It lived only in theory from 1964 until scientists finally discovered it almost 50 years later.
Think about that for a second.
These weren’t guesses. They were ideas so bold they felt impossible — until the universe quietly revealed, one by one, that the theories were right. It’s almost eerie how many of the strangest predictions in physics later show up in reality exactly the way the math described them.
That’s the real magic of theoretical physics:
It lets us see the invisible.
It turns imagination into discovery.
It shows us that reality is far deeper, stranger, and more mysterious than what our eyes can see.
We’re living in a universe full of secrets — and theory is the flashlight that keeps showing us the next hidden door.
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One or two moments
A piece of your time
Is all I am asking
And I'll give you mine
One or two moments
Out of all you have got
To show how I love you
Believe it or not
To show how I love you
Believe it or not
#DeadHeadLife
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It took me all weekend to make I’m sure Jerry won’t mind!
Happy Birthday Jerry! 🌹
Thank you for including me on your incredible journey of inspiration.
You have given me so many blessings I am forever grateful
#gratefuldead #jerrygarcia #deadheadlife #bobweir
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War Kazoo solos! @jimrome
Smackoff season | Dino in Vegas dinoinvegas.bandcamp.com/tra…
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The Hurdy-Gurdy, Medieval European string instrument.
The hurdy-gurdy's earliest known origin dates back to the 10th century.
Musician: Andrey Vinogradov
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When two black holes collide, space itself shakes
One of the most powerful events in the universe happens when two black holes merge. This cosmic collision sends ripples through space-time called gravitational waves, creating a shockwave across the universe.




























