gnostek1 / 3Figure 1. The arrangement of hydrogen atoms (black circles) about oxygen atoms (open circles) in ice. Two hydrogen atoms (bottom ones) are close to the central oxygen atom while two of them (top ones) are far and closer to the two other…
01Spin ice is made from dysprosium titanate, a crystal cooled to within a fraction of absolute zero.
02Magnetic monopoles — lone north or south poles — were predicted by Dirac in 1931 but never found in free nature.
03In spin ice, these quasi-monopoles move through the lattice like real particles, obeying Coulomb's magnetic law.
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01NotPetya had no functional decryption mechanism; it was pure destruction costumed as a ransom demand.
02Shipping giant Maersk lost $300 million and had to reinstall 45,000 PCs and 4,000 servers.
03It spread via a poisoned update to MeDoc, Ukrainian accounting software used by most of the country.
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01Roxas sued Ferdinand Marcos in a Hawaii court and won a $22 billion judgment in 1996 — the largest ever against a head of state.
02Japanese engineers allegedly dug over 170 tunnel complexes across the Philippines between 1942 and 1945 to conceal looted Asian wealth.
03Marcos reportedly had the golden Buddha Roxas found melted and recast to erase provenance markings.
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01Port Authority police boarded the departing Air France flight and removed Strauss-Kahn from seat number 1A, first class.
02Nafissatou Diallo, a 32-year-old Guinea-born housekeeper, described the assault in a civil suit that settled for an undisclosed sum.
03French polls showed Strauss-Kahn leading Nicolas Sarkozy by 10 points in presidential projections the week of his arrest.
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01Trajan's Column stands 38 metres tall; its spiral frieze depicts 2,662 individual human figures.
02The column served as Trajan's tomb; his ashes were sealed in a golden urn in its base.
03It was cast from 29 hollow marble drums, each weighing roughly 32 tonnes, stacked with millimetre precision.
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01Herzog cooked the shoe with garlic and duck fat before eating it in front of an audience.
02Les Blank filmed the entire meal; the resulting short, 'Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe,' runs 28 minutes.
03He made the original bet to push Errol Morris to finish 'Gates of Heaven' — and Morris did.
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01Drake had concealed Adonis's existence; Pusha T's 2018 track was the public revelation.
02The cover art repurposed a leaked Drake Adidas promotional photo, weaponizing Drake's own brand deal.
03Drake confirmed the son's existence days later via an Instagram post, validating every claim.
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01General Douglas MacArthur personally approved suppressing Unit 731 evidence from Tokyo trial proceedings.
02Prosecutors received a direct instruction from Washington in May 1947 to exclude all BW testimony.
03Twenty-five men were convicted; not one faced a charge related to experiments on 3,000 or more deaths.
gnostek1 / 2A carpet beater
01Carpet beaters were beaten against rugs suspended on clotheslines, releasing clouds of dust into the beater's face.