Here's the relevant quote from Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead:

If we had to observe your university under the same limitations that bind us in our observation of the Lusitanian aborigines, we would no doubt conclude that humans do not reproduce, do not form kinship groups, and devote their entire life cycle to the metamorphosis of the larval student into the adult professor.

Species distribution modelling

Maximum entropy probability distribution

Tim Kopra's Tweet about Singapore from the ISS

Black-body radiation

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Logitech MX Master Series Advanced Keyboards & Performance Mice

You should probably charge your MacBook using the ports on its right side

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