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Signore Galilei

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Let's Explore! Hi! I'm Signore Galilei, and I write books, create educational videos online, and participated in the Inkhaven blogging residency. New to the blog? Start here! Latest videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU-UBwZe14rXd3ve4WHCIOjQ

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2026 50

  1. Tilapia are multi-jawed monsters
  2. The “canal” in the Amazon that breaks the rules
  3. Why the Belgian King is not the King of Belgium
  4. We’re missing an entire kind of asteroid
  5. These 6 countries secretly have the same name
  6. What’s Earth’s dominant species by mass?
  7. Antarctica is keeping the ocean alive…for now
  8. The mystery animal on an ancient god’s head
  9. The Earth is missing 3 trillion tons of mass
  10. The two Christian saints who are secretly the Buddha
  11. How to find an eclipse around another planet
  12. The next total solar eclipse is 500 million miles away
  13. “There Will Come Soft Rains”: Bradbury’s miniature apocalypse
  14. How to put 170 atoms in an atom
  15. The most official water costs $120,000 a gallon
  16. 8 billion protagonists
  17. Even more things turning 250 this year
  18. What else is turning 250 this year?
  19. Why New Zealand is on a map of the USA
  20. The last Romans are still around
  21. The failed plan to centralize the world’s nukes
  22. When Britain declared war on Kandy
  23. You’ll never guess who made the first wireless telephone
  24. What Columbus used instead of the North Star
  25. The round-the-world escape from Pearl Harbor
  26. Mbabaram for dog is “dog”
  27. How sticky corn confounded western science
  28. Going Back: Inkhaven
  29. Going Back: Rituals
  30. “You don’t have to go back there”
  31. Going Back: 6 time travel methods
  32. Going Back: Judging Irrational Numbers
  33. Going Back: The Khwarazmian Empire
  34. Going back: The Moon
  35. Going Back: Glee Club
  36. Going Back #1: My old writing
  37. A Tale of Two Hyderabads
  38. The school in a nuclear bunker
  39. We briefly had Long Connecticut
  40. The other alphabetical order we almost had
  41. The paddle wheel aircraft carriers of Lake Michigan
  42. Why Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme?
  43. The Five Boroughs of Old York
  44. The most contentious person on Wikipedia is an African samurai
  45. Map projections are tough – here’s my new favorite
  46. We still use Roman money
  47. 1960: The Year of Africa
  48. The mountain that weighed the Earth
  49. Why the government’s bank account grew 100x since 2007
  50. Happy Public Domain Day

2025 34

  1. There are too many types of barcode
  2. Preserved Fish, Boss of New York City
  3. Judging Fractals
  4. Looking back on Inkhaven
  5. Treating Factorio Withdrawal
  6. I collect Rubik’s cubes – and I can’t solve them
  7. Inkhaven’s turn: The best empires 600 BCE – Present
  8. The best empires 500 BCE – Present, according to me
  9. Review: Surreal Numbers
  10. The dying idealism of Peacecore
  11. A deep dive into the Earth
  12. Fiction: A leap of logic
  13. Designing a Mechanical Calculator
  14. Genghis Khan Day
  15. Judging 4D shapes
  16. Being judgmental about geometric shapes
  17. Universities are Venture Capital for Prestige
  18. Europe’s Hidden Buddhist Mongolian Republic
  19. Games I love, ranked by “spreadsheet factor”
  20. NASA is Scott, China is Amundsen
  21. Philosophy-shaped mind shards
  22. Vikings. Vikings everywhere.
  23. Tides are weirder than you think
  24. Review: The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel, by Maciej Cegłowski
  25. 8 forgotten facts about the Olympics
  26. You can just do experiments
  27. Were the Space Shuttle’s boosters really the size of two horse butts?
  28. Some ballad meter poetry, to just amuse myself
  29. The metal that remade time
  30. Factorio is a zombie shooter for nerds
  31. When the heck did Hammurabi actually rule?
  32. I ate bear fat, to prove a point
  33. A formula for round numbers
  34. Ahoy Ahoy, Mound!