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  1. Math

    Pythagoras Plays Ball

    The official dimensions of baseball's home plate aren't Pythagorean.

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  2. Humans

    From the July 7, 1934, issue

    Fireworks in Fairyland, controlling the sex of warm-blooded animals, and deadly atmospheres on Jupiter and Saturn.

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  3. 19439

    In the close-up from the Cassini spacecraft, some of Saturn’s rings look rather like grooves in a phonograph record. I wonder if anyone has tried mapping those grooves to see if they can be played using the method described in “Groovy Pictures: Extracting sound from images of old audio recordings” (SN: 5/29/04, p. 339: Groovy […]

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  4. Planetary Science

    Titanic Images, Groovy Shots: Cassini arrives at Saturn

    After a 7-year, 3.5-billion-mile