New prefixes get introduced to measure the very big and very small. E.g., Earth weighs one ronnagram. An electron? One quectogram.
↩︎ Nature
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A French court says a man fired for allegedly failing to be “fun” enough at work was wrongfully dismissed.
↩︎ The Washington Post
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Unearthed photographs, taken by prison-appointed photographers, of daily life at San Quentin.
↩︎ The Marshall Project
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“If the issue cannot be resolved we would take legal action in the international courts. The case against the Drax family would be for hundreds of years of slavery, so it’s likely any damages would go well bey…
According to Merriam-Webster, searches for “gaslighting” increased 1740% year-on-year in 2022. “Oligarch” searches spiked 621%.
↩︎ Quartz
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“99.9% of people will never get to experience what you will.” A review of NASA’s social media guidelines for astronauts.
↩︎ Vox
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This is the MS Voyager, looking to become the world’s first marine spaceport, launching a carbon-neutral “spaceballoon.”
↩︎ Space Per…