Showerthought: "When you consider the size of the universe, or even the size of our galaxy, "the speed of light" is actually painfully slow."Showerthought: "The abbreviation for down (dn) is just "up" upside-down."
Showerthought: "You know you're old when you fall down and no one laughs."
Showerthought: "When people think about traveling to the past, they worry about accidentally changing the present, but no one in the present really thinks they can radically change the future."
A zeptosecond is a trillionth of a billionth of a second.
"A factoid is not a small fact. It's a mistaken assumption repeated so often that it is believed to be true. At least, that was the meaning ascribed to the word by Norman Mailer, who is widely credited with coining it, in his 1973 biography of Marilyn Monroe. Mailer said factoids were "facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper"."
GMO crops don’t actually reduce pesticide use or produce more food. "In fact, herbicide use, says the Times, has increased in the US by 21 percent since the introduction of GMO crops in the mid-1990s. In Europe, over the same time period, herbicide use has declined by 36 percent."
A list of U.S. Marine Corps acronyms and expressions.
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