Champaign-Urbana metropolitan area Updated 2025-07-16
It is quite comical that two separate towns were founded one next to the other right in the middle of nowhere. And that both have so slightly weird names.
Los Alamos, New Mexico Updated 2025-07-16
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This is why we moved here by Syd and Macky (2022)
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Ming dynasty Updated 2025-07-16
New York Updated 2025-07-16
Chinese culture Updated 2025-07-16
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Concurrent Versions System Updated 2025-07-16
It is said, that once upon a time, programmers used CSV and collaborated on SourceForge, and that everyone was happy.
These days, are however, long gone in the mists of time as of 2020, and beyond Ciro Santilli's programming birth.
Except for hardware developers of course. The are still happily using Perforce and Tcl, and shall never lose their innocence. Blessed be their souls. Amen.
C# Updated 2025-07-16
Mitchell and Webb Updated 2025-07-16
They do have some really good ones.
It is interesting that in different episodes they often switch the dominant/passive roles, so it's not fixed as in Laurel and Hardy.
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Are we the Baddies? by Mitchell and Webb
. Source. See also: cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/nazi.
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Discoverer by Mitchell and Webb
. Source. Makes fun of the many terrible naming choices British navigators have made while discovering/rediscovering new lands.
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Homeopathic A&E by Mitchell and Webb
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Perforce Updated 2025-07-16
Theria Updated 2025-07-16
Every mammal except the weird monotremes, i.e. marsupials and the placentalia.
The name is completely random, "wild beast". Are platypuses not "wild beasts"? They have a freaking poison!!
X-ray crystallography Updated 2025-07-16
One of its main applications is to determine the 3D structure of proteins.
Sometimes you are not able to crystallize the proteins however, and the method cannot be used.
Crystallizing is not simple because:
  • you need a considerable amount of the protein
  • sometimes it only crystallizes if you add some extra small chemical that stabilizes it
Cryogenic electron microscopy can sometimes determine the structures of proteins that failed crystallization.

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