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Blog 2 months ago
Thought of the day from Chinese philosopher Confucius: "Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous."
"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous." That is James Legge's translation of a line attributed to Confucius in the Analects. At first it sounds like a simple warning against being lazy. Look closer and you notice it
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HSBC paid nearly $2 billion in 2012 after investigators found that Mexican drug-cartel money had moved through its banking system for years - hidden not in suitcases, but inside hundreds of billions of dollars in wire transfers
Somebody, at some point, took a tape measure to the teller windows at HSBC's branches in Mexico. Couriers carrying cartel cash had tired of feeding loose notes through a narrow slot, so they commissioned boxes built to the window's exact dimensions. Hundr
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News spacedaily.com 2 months ago
The Case for Colonising Titan
To survive on Titan, you'd need a heated suit and oxygen, but not the pressurized shell that would crush you on Venus or suffocate you on Mars-a distinction that fundamentally reshapes how we imagine life beyond Earth.
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News spacedaily.com 3 months ago
Astronauts describe persistent 'observer' sensation after 6 month missions
Astronauts returning from long ISS rotations consistently describe a half-step-outside-themselves sensation that flight surgeons recognize as part of the post-mission readjustment curve - a perceptual cost of spending six months in a body that had to lear
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India reached Mars on its first try with a mission that cost less than a film
At 7:17 a.m. Indian Standard Time on 24 September 2014, the Mars Orbiter Mission fired its main engine and allowed Mars to capture it. With that burn, India
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