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Short version: because "forbidden" energy states aren't actually impossible, just highly improbable, electrons could occasionally jump up briefly, then down to the ground state, emitting two low-energy photons instead of one high-energy one, slowly cutting down on the likelihood that the hydrogen atom will just get re-ionized again.

"We are not wired for closure. We’re wired for tension, interruption, dangling threads. But we live in an economy that treats incompletion like failure — and sells us endless tools to fix it. Finish the task. Clear the inbox. Optimize the workflow. Productivity has become a moral category, enforced by dashboards and dopamine and deadlines"

"your team almost certainly doesn’t have what it takes to out-engineer the browser. The browser will continuously improve the experience of plain HTML, at no cost to you, using a rendering engine that is orders of magnitude more efficient than JavaScript. "

"Why do some places on Earth have higher gravity than others? Sometimes the reason is unknown. To help better understand the Earth's surface, sensitive measurements by the orbiting satellites GRACE and CHAMP were used to create a map of Earth's gravitational field. Since a center for studying these data is in Potsdam, Germany, and since"

"The Authenticity 500 Index is the definitive ranking of the most authentic brands in the world. The index is based on a survey of thousands of people, and it measures brands on factors such as transparency, consistency, and social responsibility."

"Designing from cradle to grave is no longer good enough. We need to postpone that grave as long as possible. This is how to design for a right to repair."

"US trade partners are already "looking into tariffs or taxes on digital services as a retaliation tool that could cause pain to the US," the report warned. And other experts agreed that if such countermeasures become permanent fixtures in global trade, it could significantly hurt the US tech industry, perhaps even splintering the Internet, as companies are forced to customize services according to where different users are located."
As usual, the "conservative" approach is to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

Contamination of a couple of batches at one spice supplier cascaded through the whole supply chain.

"Thirty years ago, Robin Dunbar theorized humans can maintain a friendship group of 150 people, with five intimate friendships. Despite many attempts to challenge the theory, Dunbar's Number has stood the test of time. Backed by neuroscience and statistics, Robin Dunbar explains why his theory still prevails."

The original web page describing the development of a 3D equivalent to the Mandelbrot set.