To celebrate the achievement, POWER used some of the transferred energy to make popcorn - an homage to Real Genius, the 1985 Val Kilmer film where slacker grad students thwart a plot to weaponize high-energy lasers.
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1800ās was quite the century for volcanoes eh?
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For some reason Iām particularly amazed by the 1783/1784 Laki eruption in Iceland:
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2001JD002042
https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/wheredisasterstrikes/volcano/laki-1783-1784/
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Was reading the Wikipedia link i provided above and saw another notable eruption that i didnāt know of. It is the 1814 eruption of Mt Mayon in the Philippines which is ranked as one of the deadliest volcanic eruptions. But frustratingly i canāt find a whole lot of information about it beyond short summaries. Although seems like that volcano also has a long active history 
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Unfortunately, no remains have been found outside of Africa, and no DNA older than 20,000 years has been recovered from that continentāwell after Paranthropus went extinct. So, for Paranthropus remains that date from roughly 2 million years ago, the team turned to proteins found in teeth. These inevitably get damaged over timeābroken down into smaller fragments, with some amino acids chemically altered. But the robust nature of tooth enamel should prevent their wholesale destruction.
This is a fascinating technique that offers vast possibilities. We have even recovered some protein residues from dinosaur fossils, so there should be samples out there to examine using this to clarify some of the ongoing mysteries of evolution. Fun times!
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That is really exciting and could open a whole new chapter in what we know about what is around us. Given our current situation, though, I canāt help but think this could be used for horrible evil purposes as well. I guess we shall see.
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For absolute weirdos who canāt stand any edge on a brownie.
Althoughā¦ one would think the crackly top pretty much by definition is an edgeā¦
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Also good for heel injuries.
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What about those of us who want an all edge brownie?
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Well, thereās options for that, or at least to get close!
Unless you mean it should be edge all the way through, which might beā¦ topologically difficult?
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Aināt nothinā wrong with a liāl topological difficulty!
But those pans are sweet!
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I assume for real-world applications, five or six iterations in should be sufficient.
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Cross-post to math jokes! 
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