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Discovery of the neutron:
One author (James Chadwick), one page, one Nobel prize (1935). Later in 1932, Chadwick published a less tentative paper, “The Existence of a Neutron” in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A. That paper, also by a sole author, was 17 pages and gave a complete description of the experiment and results.
The list of authors on one of the two papers announcing discovery of the Higgs boson is eight pages long.
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The mandir’s construction commenced in 2010. The mandir was built in the Nagaradi style using 68,000 cubic feet of Italian Carrara marble. The marble obtained from quarries in Europe was shipped to Rajasthan, India where hundreds of artisans carved the stones. After the finished pieces of stone were assembled in workshops, engineers sequentially numbered the pieces and shipped them to Robbinsville. Upon their arrival, the pieces were organized using the numbering system to facilitate the mandir’s construction.
The mandir was constructed primarily through the efforts of artisans and volunteers who provided an estimated 4.7 million human hours.
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Bing:
Google (a bit earlier in construction):
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Never change, Microsoft. Here is how this comment was displayed to me.
This is in a browser (Google Chrome), configured for English user interface, with English as the preferred language for Web site communications. So, Microsoft apparently geolocated my IP address, found that it was in Switzerland, and blindly assumed, disregarding the language preference sent them in the HTTP request header, that the reply should be in the language spoken by 65% of the Swiss population, not the 95% of where I actually live.
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Actually, this content is pre-fetched by the CH-based server of yours, so we all see it in German 
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No, my post was a screen shot so you could see what my browser displayed. If you look at CTLaw’s original comment, I’ll bet you see the Bing link expansion in English.
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You lost the bet, what do I get?
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Which VPN do you use?
Actually, I get the same thing.
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I get the same German, no VPN at the moment, from Georgia, USA.
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Culture Critic has posted an 𝕏 thread, Masterpieces of Art Nouveau. Art Nouveau, is “a nature-inspired, decorative movement which flourished between 1890 and 1910 across Europe and the Americas”. Above is the interior of the Gran Hotel Ciudad de México, built in 1918 when the building was a department store.
This is an elevator at Majolica House, Vienna, dating from 1898.
Below is a chart of inflation-adjusted world GDP per capita from 1820 through the early 2000s.
Why don’t we build beautiful things?
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Click to play video in 𝕏.
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It’s Hallowe’en time again!
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Impressive! Free hand shooting.
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Here’s another approach to this:
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And clearly a single track, not two-way. Reminds me of an alternating one way or the other for cars that colleagues and I used to grumble about - miss the green light, wait 17 increasingly tedious minutes for the next one.
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From the Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter, courtesy of NASA/JPL.
On Sept. 7, 2023, during its 54th close flyby of Jupiter, NASA’s Juno mission captured this view of an area in the giant planet’s far northern regions called Jet N7. The image shows turbulent clouds and storms along Jupiter’s terminator, the dividing line between the day and night sides of the planet. The low angle of sunlight highlights the complex topography of features in this region, which scientists have studied to better understand the processes playing out in Jupiter’s atmosphere.
As often occurs in views from Juno, Jupiter’s clouds in this picture lend themselves to pareidolia, the effect that causes observers to perceive faces or other patterns in largely random patterns.
Citizen scientist Vladimir Tarasov made this image using raw data from the JunoCam instrument. At the time the raw image was taken, the Juno spacecraft was about 4,800 miles (about 7,700 kilometers) above Jupiter’s cloud tops, at a latitude of about 69 degrees north.
Boo!
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After an entire weekend of carving this 2,246-lb. pumpkin, a botanical beast at last emerged—tentacles and all!
This year’s #FallOWeen finale was a marathon of crafting by Adam Bierton and Lenny Calvin as they brought this monster to life to the delight of thousands of costumed kids and families.
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