<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Feed The Reader]]></title><description><![CDATA[Feed The Reader]]></description><link>https://www.feedthereader.com/all-articles</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 07:54:07 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.feedthereader.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Rockets Don't Need Air to Push Against]]></title><description><![CDATA[The push that drives a rocket happens between the rocket and its own exhaust. Outside air isn't what it pushes against, which is why empty space doesn't stop it.]]></description><link>https://www.feedthereader.com/post/rockets-don-t-need-air-to-push-against</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6add541fb84e18907af0138c</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:58:07 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>feedthereaderadmin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lonely Brain That Shouldn't Outnumber Us]]></title><description><![CDATA[Give randomly jiggling atoms long enough and, very rarely, they could fall into the shape of a single working brain, complete with memories of a life it never lived. Some models of the universe seem to predict far more of these lonely minds than ordinary people. Physicists don't take that as news about reality. 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Nobody Can Yet Agree Why]]></title><description><![CDATA[Everyone learns that ice is slippery because a thin skin of water coats it. Why that skin forms is a different matter, and the argument has run for nearly two centuries without a winner.]]></description><link>https://www.feedthereader.com/post/ice-is-slippery-nobody-can-yet-agree-why</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6add541fb84e18907af0138d</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:58:07 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>feedthereaderadmin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Bronze Box That Counted Its Way to the Next Eclipse]]></title><description><![CDATA[A lump of corroded gears from an ancient shipwreck turned out to be a calculator for the sky. 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Here's what was actually measured, and the model that makes sense of it.]]></description><link>https://www.feedthereader.com/post/cold-enough-helium-slips-through-cracks-and-climbs-out-of-its-cup</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6add53a4b84e18907af012cd</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:56:04 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>feedthereaderadmin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cherenkov Light Is a Shock Wave of Light in a Medium]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nothing with mass can outrun light in empty space. But put light in water or glass and it slows down, and a charged particle that moves faster than that slower light gives off a blue glow. 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For the most part the spelling didn't change to follow the sounds, so English spelling that looks wrong is often a record of older speech.]]></description><link>https://www.feedthereader.com/post/why-english-spelling-remembers-how-people-used-to-talk</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6add53a3b84e18907af012cc</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:56:04 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>feedthereaderadmin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Affordable-Housing Quota Is a Number on a Permit, Not a Pile of Houses]]></title><description><![CDATA[An inclusionary housing quota doesn't build anything by itself. It's a condition attached to new projects, a share of homes at capped prices or a fee instead, and what it produces depends on what gets built under it.]]></description><link>https://www.feedthereader.com/post/an-affordable-housing-quota-is-a-number-on-a-permit-not-a-pile-of-houses</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6add53a3b84e18907af012ca</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:56:04 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>feedthereaderadmin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[One in a Million, With a Name: How the Micromort Measures Death]]></title><description><![CDATA[A micromort is a one-in-a-million chance of dying, packaged as a unit. Giving tiny risks a shared scale lets them be compared and, within limits, added up. 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