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This week Apple unveiled their new Mac mini, which they’ve somehow shrunk down to just 5″ square. The company says the tiny size was enabled both by the design of a power-efficient chip, and via “innovative thermal architecture, which guides air to different levels of the system, while all venting […]
The political analyst Samuel Lubell introduced the concept of the sun and moon parties in 1951. The sun party is the majority party, and “it is within the majority party that the issues of any particular period are fought out; while the minority party shines in reflected radiance of the heat thus generated.” Franklin D. […]
JWST images of little red dot galaxies Josephine F.W. Baggen et al. (2024) Strangely bright galaxies spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), called “little red dots”, may have more stars packed into them than any other galaxies we know of. The density appears so high that it’s unclear how the stars even survive […]