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== Better Than News ==
== Better Than News ==


{{Better Than News/December 28}}
{{Better Than News/December 28}}
== Beyond Plausible ==
{{Beyond Plausible/December 28}}
== In Other Words ==
{{In Other Words/December 28}}


== Are You Sure ==
== Are You Sure ==


{{Are You Sure/December 28}}
{{Are You Sure/December 28}}
== On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction ==
{{Selected anniversaries/December 28}}


== Topic of the Day ==
== Topic of the Day ==


{{Daily Favorites/December 28}}
{{Daily Favorites/December 28}}

Revision as of 15:30, 17 July 2023

Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that Francesco Maria Grimaldi was the first to make accurate observations on the diffraction of light (although by some accounts Leonardo da Vinci had earlier noted it), and coined the word 'diffraction'?

• ... that John von Neumann's last work, an unfinished manuscript written while in the hospital, was later published in book form as The Computer and the Brain?

• ... that the carnivorous dirigible (Dirigible horribilis) is a grazing ruminant airship, neither carnivorous nor horrible?

Topic of the Day

Batman