News that I will never understand of the day: holographic image of a black hole in a graphene flake

> Physicists have theoretically shown that, by applying a magnetic field to a small, irregularly shaped graphene flake, the flake becomes a quantum hologram of a black hole. This means that the graphene flake recreates the spatial structure and characteristic properties of a black hole, but in a much smaller, lower-dimensional system.

Strange "despite how"

> “Among the many hypothalamic nuclei, the tuberal nucleus is the only nucleus that we know nothing about despite how this structure has been known since at least 1938.”

@snailboat ell.stackexchange.com/questions/174192/… Why is Didn't as a single-word response infelicitous exactly? Is it because of the -n't?

I think Can't might be felicitous in some contexts, so I can't pin it down, but I feel I've read about this somewhere.

@CowperKettle It seems like the author got twisted up with the passive voice

And was trying to avoid “despite the structure having been known since...” that clause has a lot of tricky bits in it...

It might have been easier to say the structure was discovered

@ColleenV Can you edit in a closing parenthesis here after doesn't he?, not including the comma?

Word of the day: thin client

> The server does most of the work, which can include launching software programs, crunching numbers, and storing data.

That strikes me as rather informal for a Wikipedia article.

@userr2684291 Done!

@ColleenV Thank you very much!

@userr2684291 I saw thin clients at the local Navalny headquarters. They use them so that the police would have nothing to investigate and nowhere to plant their bugs in if the authorities decide to bust the HQ.

The police has the habit of apprehending all the computer hardware of political opponents "to check for signs of extremism" and holding this hardware for 6-12 months.

Word of the midnight: lag bolt (what on Earth is lag here?)

This is timber lagging.

Lag = thin strip of wood, like "barrel stave"

There is a skeeter with a concussion present in close proximity to my person.

It's like in a cartoon. The mosquito is emitting weird, intermittent sounds and flying in a spiral.

When it alights onto the ceiling it shakes for a short while.

@snailboat nods sagely

I wonder if extant would've been a better word instead of existent here.