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- A new way to visualize General Relativity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrwgIjBUYVc 8 comments
- Surgeon General: Radioactivity causes over 90% of smoking related lung cancer http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_health2.shtml 2 comments
- 'Ringing' black hole validates Einstein's general relativity 10 years ahead of schedule https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-09/sf-bh091219.php#.xxvrb6skzh4.reddit 4 comments science
- Five-dimensional black hole could ‘break’ general relativity http://scienceblog.com/482983/five-dimensional-black-hole-break-general-relativity/ 1589 comments science
- Curious Adventures in General Relativity http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=surprises-from-general-relativity 4 comments science
- Scientists challenge General Relativity. And Mr. Einstein wins again. http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2008/07/08/scientists-challenge-general-relativity-and-mr-einstein-wins-again/ 3 comments science
- On March 16, 2016 Republican Chairman Bob Corker of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations supported removal of Ukrainian General Prosecutor Viktor Shokin. https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/03%2015%2016%20ukrainian%20reforms%20two%20years%20after%20the%20maidan%20revolution%20and%20the%20russian%20invasion.pdf 7 comments politics
- 'Opportunity for healing': General Custer's relative visits Standing Rock https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/15/standing-rock-general-custer-relative-visits-dakota-access-pipeline 2 comments politics
- Are gravity and Einstein's General Relativity Theory mutually exclusive? http://einstein.stanford.edu/content/sci_papers/papers/PhysRevLett.106.221101.pdf 6 comments askscience
- The War on Drugs: Three of every four murders in Mexico now drug-related, figures reluctantly released by Mexico's attorney general show. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/120111/mexicos-drug-war-claims-nearly-50000-lives 4 comments worldnews
- Implementing General Relativity in C++: Wormholes, spinning black holes, accretion disks, and redshift https://20k.github.io/c++/2024/07/02/wormholes.html 10 comments cpp
- Attorney General Jeff Sessions will recuse himself from any probe related to 2016 campaign https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/top-gop-lawmaker-calls-on-sessions-to-recuse-himself-from-russia-investigation/2017/03/02/148c07ac-ff46-11e6-8ebe-6e0dbe4f2bca_story.html 3 comments politics
- Attorney General Sessions is recusing himself from any probe related to 2016 presidential campaign https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/03/02/attorney-general-sessions-is-recusing-himself-from-any-probe-related-to-2016-presidential-campaign/?utm_term=.68a9a732b227 5 comments politics
- Attorney General Sessions is recusing himself from any probe related to 2016 presidential campaign https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/03/02/attorney-general-sessions-is-recusing-himself-from-any-probe-related-to-2016-presidential-campaign/?utm_term=.80e32ff68693 10 comments politics
- Did the tax related reasons of the American Revolution predispose Americans to general opposition to taxes? https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/4hsy5y/did_the_tax_related_reasons_of_the_american/ 17 comments history
- Mysterious radio signals from space discovered to be a much better test of Einstein's General Relativity theory http://phys.org/news/2015-12-mysterious-radio-space-einstein-relativity.html 33 comments science
- The Gravity Probe B test of general relativity - IOPscience http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0264-9381/32/22/224001/meta;jsessionid=e0d57e8307f196b835f3388a3c6bc6d4.c4.iopscience.cld.iop.org 3 comments science
- New York Times headline from 10 Nov 1919 announcing the confirmation of general relativity http://flickr.com/photos/73899118@n00/216168513/ 3 comments reddit.com
- The only known pulsar duo sheds new light on general relativity and more https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pulsar-dead-stars-general-relativity-einstein 4 comments space
- Star hurtling toward massive black hole may seal deal for Einstein’s theory of general relativity http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/star-hurtling-towards-massive-black-hole-may-seal-deal-einstein-s-theory-general?utm_source=sciencemagazine&utm_medium=facebook-text&utm_campaign=starhurtling-14603 7 comments space
- Attorney General Jeff Sessions will recuse himself from any probe related to 2016 presidential campaign https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/top-gop-lawmaker-calls-on-sessions-to-recuse-himself-from-russia-investigation/2017/03/02/148c07ac-ff46-11e6-8ebe-6e0dbe4f2bca_story.html?tid=a_breakingnews&utm_term=.2fa5c73ecd66 4 comments politics
- New York attorney general subpoenas Deutsche Bank for information related to loans to Trump, signaling new inquiry https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-york-attorney-general-subpoenas-deutsche-bank-for-information-related-to-loans-to-trump-signaling-new-inquiry/2019/03/12/2d39bc56-44d4-11e9-aaf8-4512a6fe3439_story.html?utm_term=.c3bef4c7059e 5 comments politics
- Judge orders Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to release emails related to fossil fuel industry http://kfor.com/2017/02/16/judge-orders-oklahoma-attorney-general-scott-pruitt-to-release-emails-related-to-fossil-fuel-industry/ 3 comments politics
- Two studies suggest there are age-related trends that indicate a general tendency for narcissistic personality features to be lower in older individuals than younger individuals. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886922003397 12 comments science
- DC attorney general sues Proud Boys and Oath Keepers members to recoup costs related to January 6 https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/14/politics/dc-proud-boys-oath-keepers-lawsuit/index.html 12 comments politics
- General Intelligence and the Dark Triad [none of the constructs of the dark triad are meaningfully related to intelligence. However, there was a small negative correlation between intelligence and Factor 2 psychopathy] https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/1614-0001/a000352 2 comments science
- A star orbiting a black hole at the center of the Milky Way shows Einstein got gravity right — again. It’s the first time general relativity has been confirmed near a supermassive black hole. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/star-orbiting-black-hole-einstein-gravity-general-relativity?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=r_space 14 comments space
- As is true in humans, chimpanzees’ general intelligence is correlated to their ability to exert self-control and delay gratification, according to new research, which finding relates back to the famous “marshmallow test,” an experiment originally performed at Stanford University in the 1960s. http://news.gsu.edu/2018/02/08/chimpanzee-self-control-related-intelligence-georgia-state-study-finds/ 834 comments science
- Amazing Collection of Physics Video Lectures (Quantum Physics/Mechanics, Field Theory, Applied Group Theory, General Relativity. Cosmology, and others) http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com/2008/04/physics-video-lectures.html 24 comments science
- Democratic senators warned Monday that they might delay confirming President Bush's choice to be the next attorney general unless the White House turns over documents relating to several investigations - might?? http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/18/mnbls85gt.dtl&tsp=1 15 comments politics
- Dark energy: Neutron stars will tell us if it’s only an illusion - SISSA scientists provide the first simulation of neutron star collisions in extensions of general relativity relevant for cosmology, offering a new approach to test gravity. The work has been published in Physical Review Letters https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/945257 4 comments science
- Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity proposed that the gravity of large objects like Earth distort the flow of time -- an effect known as gravitational time dilation. Physicists have presented the most precise measurement of gravitational time dilation to date on the scale of 1 millimeter. https://www.inverse.com/innovation/atomic-clocks-einstein-gravity 17 comments science
- General Motors to temporarily halt production of nearly all US plants due to pandemic-related chip shortage overseas https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2021/09/02/gm-semiconductor-chip-shortage-assembly-plants-close/5696490001/ 149 comments economy
- General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's former military leader, has been sentenced to death. The three-member court sentenced him over a high treason charge pending since 2013, relating to his suspension of the constitution in 2007, when he imposed emergency rule in order to extend his tenure. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50819772 11 comments worldnews
- Painstaking Pulsar Measurements That Took 14 Years Just Confirmed General Relativity. The pulsar slightly wobbles as it spins, it's called precession - a phenomenon predicted by general relativity that has only ever been observed in very few pulsars. https://www.sciencealert.com/long-term-measurements-of-a-pulsar-have-once-again-confirmed-general-relativity 4 comments science
- A study shows that grieving patients who receive what is known as talk therapy at the general practitioner shortly after a relative's death, have a lower risk of suicide and psychiatric illness than others. Data from 207.000 million Danes is included in the register-based study https://www.brightsurf.com/news/article/092018465924/talking-with-the-doctor-makes-it-easier-to-deal-with-grief-and-bereavement.html 3 comments science
- Scientists built a strontium clock that is so precise, out of every 10 quintillion ticks only 3.5 would be out of sync – the first atomic clock ever to reach that level of precision, that could help test general relativity and hunt for gravitational waves, as reported in Science. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2149568-the-most-precise-atomic-clock-ever-made-is-a-cube-of-quantum-gas/ 200 comments science
- Does anyone know how one could contact a relatively well known author (who is no longer publishing) that isn't on social media and has no internet presence in general? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shaffer 14 comments books
- The plot to make Big Food pay - "Lawyers are pitching state attorneys general in 16 states with a radical idea: make the food industry pay for soaring obesity-related health care costs. It’s a move straight from the playbook of the Big Tobacco takedown of the 1990s..." http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/food-industry-obesity-health-care-costs-103390.html 194 comments politics
- Antigravity created by superconductive spinning disc now measured! "capable of generating a powerful gravitomagnetic field, and is therefore the gravitational counterpart of the magnetic coil. ... one hundred million trillion times larger than Einstein's General Relativity predicts. " http://phys.org/news12054.html 3 comments science