Thankfully for us, water seems unaware of the rules of chemistry or laws of physics. Everyone
Thankfully for us, water seems unaware of the rules of chemistry or laws of physics.
That is why, for instance, horses in New England (as in East Anglia) neigh, while those in the middle states of America (and the Midlands of England) whinny.
That’s the thing about Australia, you see. It teems with interesting stuff, but at the same time it’s so vast and empty and forbidding that it generally takes a remarkable stroke of luck to find it. U...
Which state, very baldly, that a thing moves in the direction in which it is pushed; that it will keep moving in a straight line until some other force acts to slow or deflect it; and that every actio...
The Dunning-Kruger Effect is basically being too stupid to know how stupid you are. That
I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it.
The National Park Service actually has something of a tradition of making things extinct.
The New York Times, with what was threatening to become a customary lack of prescience, forecast that it would never be a serious competitor for radio because people must sit and keep their eyes glued...
Bundesbahnangestelltenwitwe (a widow of a federal railway employee),
Buffon found himself threatened with excommunication for expressing it. A practical man, he apologized at once for his thoughtless heresy, then cheerfully repeated the assertions throughout his subseq...
The basic working arrangement of atoms is the molecule (from the Latin for little mass).
The best ones go in for a kind of gloriously silly redundancy toward the end, as with Sir Humphrey Dodington Benedict Sherston Sherston-Baker and the truly unbeatable Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraduat...
The body is in constant danger of being depleted by a greedy brain, but cannot afford to let the brain go hungry as that would rapidly lead to death.
The complexities of the English language are such that even native speakers cannot always communicate effectively, as almost every American learns on his first day in Britain.
Your pillow alone may be home to 40 million bed mites. (To them your head is just one large oily bon-bon). And don't think a clean pillow-case will make a difference... Indeed, if your pillow is six y...
Among them Pleistocene (most recent), Pliocene (more recent), Miocene (moderately recent) and the rather endearingly vague Oligocene (but a little recent).
A Croatian seismologist named Andrija Mohorovičić was studying graphs from an earthquake in Zagreb when he noticed a similar odd deflection, but at a shallower level. He had discovered the boundary be...
Ancient light in
The Maoris of New Zealand have thirty-five words for dung (don’t ask me why).
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