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GPS Runs on Relativity
Your phone's blue dot is a daily, working confirmation of general relativity.
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Tides Are Stranger Than You Think
Two bulges, a slow goodbye, and days that used to be shorter.
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The Distributed Octopus
Most of an octopus's neurons never see the inside of its head.
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The Leap Second Must Die
The strange bureaucratic afterlife of the extra second.
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How the Aurora Works
A user's guide to the sky's largest electrical fault.
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Markets Under the Forest
The wood wide web is real; the fairy tale about it is not.