Because it’s Friday

Because it’s Friday: A Million Random Digits

In 1955, the RAND Corporation published a book called “A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates.” This is exactly what...
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Apr 18, 2026 43 sec read

Because It’s Friday: The Music Video Where Physics Wrote the Song

The universe arranges itself into patterns, completely invisible, right in front of us. Every so often someone finds a way to...
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Apr 3, 2026 44 sec read

Because it’s Friday: Wrong in Real Time

A nonprofit research group called METR (Model Evaluation & Threat Research) ran a randomized controlled trial earlier this year to measure...
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Mar 27, 2026 50 sec read

Because It’s Friday: The Mozzarella Phase

A group of Italian physicists got tired of their cacio e pepe turning clumpy when cooking for big groups, so they...
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Mar 19, 2026 55 sec read

Because It’s Friday: Spurious Scholar

Tyler Vigen’s Spurious Correlations has been a beloved corner of the internet since 2014, pairing line charts of things like Nicolas...
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Mar 13, 2026 39 sec read

Because It’s Friday: The Animal Fart Database

Somewhere between a Twitter joke and a peer-reviewed research tool lives #DoesItFart, a crowdsourced spreadsheet maintained by biologists cataloging which animals...
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Mar 7, 2026 41 sec read
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