Some chemical reactions happen faster in ice. Discover magazine had a neat article about this, "Did Life Evolve in Ice?": https://www.discovermagazine.c...

I use the Blocktube addon for Firefox to remove channels and videos I don't want to see.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

Veritasium has a video on bowling that goes into the physics, ball technology, lane oil, and so on. it's very informative and surprisingly interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

> Journo standards are now low, and only dropping, it seems. And that's before noticing that these editors don't actually edit anything whatsoever.
There's a word for this kind of "reporting": Churnalism. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Blocktube to block channels and videos:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

Watchmarker to grey-out already seen videos:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

Enhancer for quality of life tweaks:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

uBlock Origin for ad blocking:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

> can they solve the absolutely obnoxious as all get-out 'cookie' requests

Try the "I don't care about cookies" browser plugin: https://www.i-dont-care-about-...

I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords.

> Could you kindly point me to something that *actually* explains the "Pauli exclusion priciple"?

This physics video has an excellent visualization of the math: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Neil DeGrasse Tyson's StarTalk: https://www.youtube.com/c/Star...
Dr Don's Subatomic Stories at Fermilab: https://www.youtube.com/user/f...
Sabine Hossenfelder: https://www.youtube.com/c/Sabi...

This Firefox add-on removes most cookie warnings: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

No, Betteridge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This is Benford's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

"the most complete list of free online streaming Mystery Science Theater 3000 videos"
http://www.club-mst3k.com/

Citation needed.

The New Yorker did a profile on Liu this summer: https://www.newyorker.com/maga...

His most interesting comment is this: "If China were to transform into a democracy, it would be hell on earth.”

He "briskly dismissed the idea that fiction could serve as commentary on history or on current affairs." In the Three Body Problem books, every time a government goes all-in on a big project, it's a group-think mistake that later becomes obvious. Liu also said “the relationship between politics and science fiction cannot be underestimated,” but he avoids direct political commentary.

> every damn website now have cookie acceptance forms

There's a browser extension for that: https://www.i-dont-care-about-...