There weren't any active communities I could find that my question would fit into, so I went with this one

mass downvotes mean so little on a site where posts get at most 13 comments

WHAT??? Why didn't they teach me this in physics school????

I'm confused. So we're listening to court orders now?

Great news though

For anyone wondering why they would need to see polarized light: I actually looked into this a few months ago!

Other animals that are trying to blend in with the environment often use countershading appear less conspicuous. The problem with this is that this method can't replicate the polarization of the light behind them, making them stand out if you can see that sort of thing. ((Sunlight in the ocean is always polarized based on the direction of the sun (look up fresnel equations for s and p polarized light))). Even transparent creatures will interrupt the polarization in some way, so this is a very useful skill to have.

Queer Up!! 💪😤😤😡😤

I feel like the box being made out of metal was probably more important than the chicken soul, but whatever works I guess

Tech guy invents the concept of giving instructions

Actually, every donut has a corresponding donut hole somewhere in the world, which holds the center of mass. This property of disconnection between a donut and its CoM has many interesting applications.

"Open Compute" being trademarked is pretty ironic

"macOS has been here" "how can you tell?" ".DS_Store"

The article starts by doing the "quantum" thing that really irks me, where they use confusing terminology to make it sound like "FTL communication" without actually saying it. This is garbage that doesn't actually matter to the article.

Basically, they found a way to send quantum entangled photons (which exist in a very delicate unobserved state) through existing fiber optic infrastructure without interfering with the standard internet information already travelling through the fiber. A lot of the difficulty with this is due to signal noise that needs to be filtered out. This will be useful communicating quantum measurements over long distances.