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The tragic tale of Guillaume Le Gentil

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Post date March 27, 2025
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Zooming out by powers of 10

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Post date March 26, 2025
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There’s more to those colliding blocks that compute pi

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Post date March 13, 2025
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When being beautifully wrong leads to discovery

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Post date February 28, 2025
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Why the ancient Greek’s rejected heliocentrism

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Post date February 27, 2025
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How to estimate the distance to the sun

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Post date February 26, 2025
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How Aristarchus deduced the distance to the moon

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Post date February 25, 2025
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The cosmic distance ladder with Terence Tao (part 2)

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Post date February 23, 2025
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How Earth’s size was computed by Eratosthenes

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Post date February 12, 2025
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Measuring the earth with Terence Tao

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Post date February 8, 2025
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