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{{Better Than News/February 1}}
{{Better Than News/February 1}}
== Beyond Plausible ==
{{Beyond Plausible/January 31}}


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


{{Are You Sure/February 1}}
{{Are You Sure/February 1}}
== On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction ==
{{Selected anniversaries/February 1}}


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


{{Daily Favorites/February 1}}
{{Daily Favorites/February 1}}

Revision as of 07:20, 31 January 2023

Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

Are You Sure

• ... that the film How to NFT a Millionaire is not itself an NFT?

• ... that physicist and academic Werner Heisenberg (5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) introduced the uncertainty principle — a principle in quantum mechanics which may be expressed by any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle can be known?

• ... that the British-American film The Prime Directive of Miss Jean Brodie was inspired by an actual violation of the Prime Directive?

• ... that physicist and mathematician Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (13 August 1819 – 1 February 1903) made pioneering contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics?

• ... that Humbugs candy contains flavored neo-pheromones, and that each color expresses a different flavor of anger?

Topic of the Day

Star Trek