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                  Baseball Should Kill The Baseball

                  What follows is a proposal for making baseball more fun. Not necessarily as a narrative to track across a 162-game season, although I think it would accomplish that as well. This proposal is aimed at spicing up the couple hours spent watching a garden-variety midsummer regular-season baseball game. A relatively simple change, handled entirely away […]

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                  Chris Thompson
                  Baseball players handle some baseballs.

                  Check Out This New Dinosaur: An Absolute Dumbass Piece Of Shit

                  Science
                  Tom Ley
                  Stupid dino

                  An Earth Robot Is Taking Soil Samples On An Asteroid Tonight And By God You Will Know About It

                  Science
                  Chris Thompson
                  A view of the asteroid Bennu, from the camera of OSIRIS-REx.

                  The Nobel Prize Is Just One Front In The Extremely Fascinating CRISPR Wars

                  Science
                  Maitreyi Anantharaman
                  French researcher in Microbiology, Genetics and Biochemistry Emmanuelle Charpentier (L) and US professor of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology, Jennifer Doudna pose beside a painting made by children of the genome at the San Francisco park in Oviedo, on October 21, 2015.

                  Two Fusion Researchers Explain The Tokamak Reactor That I Want To Be Hurled Into

                  Science
                  Chris Thompson
                  Rendering of SPARC, a compact, high-field, DT burning tokamak, currently under design by a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Its mission is to create and confine a plasma that produces net fusion energy.

                  If Scientists Are To Create And Harness The Unfathomable Power Of A Star, They Must Agree To Hurl Me Into It

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                  Chris Thompson
                  An engineer walks past a hulking cryostat in the construction zone of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, in France.
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