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Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?

An exercise in Language Compression analyzing the repetitiveness of a dataset of 15,000 songs that charted on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1958 and 2017.

How Deep the Ocean Really Is ?

Lost in Space ?

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A Video by 'In a Nutshell' illustrating the book :

Brian Cox visits NASA’s Space Power Facility in Ohio to see what happens when a bowling ball and a feather are dropped together under the conditions of outer space.

According to Galileo, a physicist and mathematician from the 16th century, in the absence of air a feather should fall at the same speed as a canonball, even given the hugely different weights. Is that true ?

40 years ago, NASA sent a message to aliens. Here's what it says :

The full article about this NASA project