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In the club

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Sometimes, you have to sacrifice pieces to gain the advantage. Sometimes, to advance ... you have to fall back.

Arizona Chess [Explained]

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[White Hat and Cueball are sitting across from each other playing chess. The time, shown above them in white on a black screen, reads 6:35 for White Hat, and 0:28 for Cueball.] White Hat: It’s late, I’m up a pawn, and you’re out of time. It’s over. Cueball: Ah, you’re forgetting something.

[Cueball gestures with one hand above the chessboard. His time now reads 0:19.] Cueball: Did you know this building straddles the Arizona border? Cueball: It actually runs right through the table. You're on the Arizona side.

[Cueball raises his hand further to gesture at his time. It beeps and is now blank and white.] Cueball: This tournament started Saturday, November 2nd. Now it's almost 2AM on the 3rd. Cueball: And there's something you should know about Arizona. Chess clock: BEEP

[White Hat raises his head slightly to look at the timer. Cueball's time now reads 60:07. Cueball lowers his hand to make a move.] White Hat: What?! No! That's not how... No!! Cueball: Looks like it's daylight slaying time.

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Even when you try to make nice, smooth ice cubes in a freezer, sometimes one of them will shoot out a random ice spike, which physicists ascribe to kiki conservation.

Phase Change [Explained]

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[A vertical graph is shown, indicating temperature in degrees Celsius, with a horizontal dotted line at zero degrees. The area above the dotted line is filled with several illustrations of liquid water in various forms--dripping, splashing, pouring, etc. This area is labeled "Bouba". The area below the dotted line is filled with illustrations of ice in various forms--icicles, ice cubes, snowflakes, etc. This area is labeled "Kiki".]

[Caption below the panel:] When water temperature falls below 0°C, it undergoes a phase transition from bouba to kiki.

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The best case is O(n), and the worst case is that someone checks why.

Linear Sort [Explained]

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[The panel shows five lines of code:] function LinearSort(list): StartTime=Time() MergeSort(list) Sleep(1e6*length(list)-(Time()-StartTime)) return

[Caption below the panel:] How to sort a list in linear time

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Can you pass the nackle?

Chemical Formulas [Explained]

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[Cueball is holding a pointer and gesturing towards a whiteboard that shows the chemical formulas HCOOH and CH₃COOH. Below these, respectively, are classic diagramatic representations of formic/methanoic acid [with an apparently accidental doubled bond between the carbon and the hydroxy group] and acetic/ethanoic acid; being, in turn, a single- and double-carbon chain molecule with a double-bonded oxygen (carbonyl group) plus an oxygen-hydrogen (hydroxy) upon one carbon of each, to form the full carboxyl grouping, and hydrogens completing all other expected bonds.] Cueball: The two simplest carboxylic acids are hakoo and chuckoo. Emphatic off-panel voice: No!! [Caption below the panel:] How to annoy chemists

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Maybe encouraging the publication of null results isn't enough--maybe we need a journal devoted to publishing results the study authors find personally annoying.

Replication Crisis [Explained]

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[Megan, Ponytail, and Cueball are standing at a lectern. Ponytail is talking into the microphone.] Ponytail: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn't be reproduced.

[Ponytail turns slightly to look around the room.] Ponytail: Over a decade into the replication crisis, we wanted to see if today's studies have become more robust.

Ponytail: Unfortunately, our replication analysis has found exactly the same problems that those 2010s researchers did.

[This panel shows a newspaper, with title "NEWS" surrounded by flourishes. There is a photo of the three researchers at the lectern taking up about half the front page. The headline reads: "REPLICATION CRISIS SOLVED".]

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Chemistry grad students have been spotted trying to lure campus squirrels into laundry hampers in the hope that it sparks inspiration.

Snake-in-the-Box-Problem [Explained]

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[A panel with text both above and below the illustration, with further text outside the panel below.] [In the panel, above the illustration:] A snake slithers around a hypercube. No two non-consecutive parts of its coils can be on adjacent corners. [Three small illustrations of 4-dimensional hypercubes, each with a snake slithering around its edges. Each illustration has a red line or lines indicating an edge or edges where two non-consecutive parts of the snake are on adjacent corners. Below each hypercube is a red X.] [A large illustration depicting a 4-dimensional hypercube with a snake slithering around its edges.] [Below the large illustration is text printed in green. To the left of the text is a green checkmark.] Dimensions=4 Max length=7 [The following text is printed in black, except for the last word "UNSOLVED" which is printed in red:] Snake(N) = Largest snake that can fit in an N-dimensional hypercube Snake(N=1, 2, 3 .. 8) = 1, 2, 4, 7, 13, 26, 50, 98 Snake(N>8) = UNSOLVED

[Text outside the panel:] It turns out every scientific field has a key thought experiment that involves putting a cute animal in a weird box for no reason. So far, quantum mechanics and graph theory have found theirs, but most other fields are still working on it.

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The ancient Romans were so so right about “eheu” being their word for “alas”. It sounds like the saddest most pathetic little sob. Eheu….

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cannot believe there are people on this earth who havent seen pov: steampunk twins find you crying in the bathroom

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'Is Umamusume RPF' – the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

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I knew I was getting close to Textile City. I could see their monument, a colossal weaving device, looming in the distance.

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a quirk of sexting while british is switching from arse to ass. i would never fuck someone in the arse. its impolite.

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this is, as the kids say, frying me (a glasses wearer)

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yes hello? id like to commission a piece of my vampire character drinking WHITE wine