🧬 Sesquizygotic twins are real, the "1.5 identical" kind. One egg was fertilized by two sperm, then split into two people. Identical on the mom's side, about 78% shared on the dad's. Only two confirmed cases: US 2007, and Australia 2019, spotted in the womb. Rare enough that a noninvasive zygosity test would call them fraternal.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1701313
https://www.nature.com/news/2007/070326/full/news070326-1.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/these-twins-are-neither-identical-nor-fraternal/584092/

#science #genetics #twins

🔦 Cosmic rays revealed a void of at least 30 metres inside the Great Pyramid of Khufu, without drilling a single hole.

Muons from cosmic-ray showers pass through stone and get absorbed unevenly. Fewer muons arriving from one direction means more rock in the path. The ScanPyramids team counted them from inside the Queen's chamber and from detectors set up outside the north face.

The result: a corridor-like void above the Grand Gallery, detected by three different muon detector types. Nobody knows what it was for.

Nature paper (Nov 2017):
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24647

arXiv preprint:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.01576

#science #physics #archaeology

Marvel's 'VisionQuest' Surprise Premiere NYCC, First Reactions

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/marvel-visionquest-surprise-premieres-nycc-first-reactions-1236906093/

Now people are using AI to reverse engineer the PS5 to make the games playable on Windows and Linux. LFG!

Good morning. ☕

defund paw patrol

Buses would be so much better if there were no cars and like loads and loads of buses and they were fast so basically trains

Somebody reverse engineered Photoshop and other Adobe products in Rust using Opus 5.5, and open sourced it.

Watch AI regulation suddenly become a priority.

IMO Electric Callboy is great wedding reception music.

❤️ Jason just liked a song on LastFM 🎶

Slowly Slowly - Sacrosaint

https://www.last.fm/music/Slowly+Slowly/_/Sacrosaint

❤️ Jason just liked a song on LastFM 🎶

South Arcade - Riptide

https://www.last.fm/music/South+Arcade/_/Riptide

I gave today's Letteripher my best shot!
Daily Puzzle #517

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Score: 5/6
Status: Lost
Time: 2:05

Check it out here:
https://letteripher.com

Good morning. ☕

Robots brush the dust off of desert solar panels every night without a drop of water, saving about 2.6 billion gallons so far

https://www.ecoticias.com/en/robots-built-by-the-israeli-company-ecoppia-roll-along-desert-solar-panels-every-night-and-brush-off-the-dust-without-a-drop-of-water-saving-about-2-6-billion-gallons-so-far-according-to-the-company/37450/

Some photos of the three opening bands: Rodeo, Keep Your Secrets, and Soul Meets Body.

Keep Your Secrets and Soul Meets Body are both from the #DMV area.

My daughter and I went to see Greywind at Jammin' Java in Vienna, VA last night. It was a great night and a fun show!

Good morning. ☕

Study of 2.5 million children finds no link between MMR vaccine and autism

https://www.psypost.org/study-of-2-5-million-children-finds-no-link-between-mmr-vaccine-and-autism/

Greywind | Union Stage Presents

Going to see Irish emo/pop-rock band Greywind at Jammin' Java tonight!

https://www.unionstagepresents.com/shows/greywind-04-oct

I would 1000% be more comfortable having my daughters hang around drag queens than frat boys.