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No, you weren’t hit by 50,000 volts

No, you weren’t hit by 50,000 volts

A rant about the misuse of scientific units

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
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Diet Hard

Diet Hard

A physics-based approach to nutrition is at best only mildly helpful

Philip Plait
Philip Plait