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| Not that anybody asked, but the symbol "lb" for pound comes from an abbreviation of the constellation Libra, the scales. |
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| It's just unfair that "a lot" is still two words, yet "inasmuch" "heretofore" "unforeseen" & "stomachache" are each one word. |
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| Advice to Students: When choosing a career, consider jobs where the idea of a vacation from it repulses you. |
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| Odd that for many people, the less data that support their beliefs the more ardently they'll defend them, even w/ their lives |
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| JUST POSTED: 's “Space Chronicles - Pt 1" The history of space exploration. On iTunes & |
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| Crescent Moon slides past Jupiter this night. In the west. After sunset. Both gorgeous. Both bright |
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| Low in the west this Saturday night, Jupiter rides the thin crescent Moon. Both stunningly suspended in the Sun's twilight, |
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| Only in America can a Beer Commercial be more scientifically literate than a State School Board: |
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| 1 light-nanosecond to your dinner plate. 1.3 light seconds to the Moon. 8.3 light-minutes to the Sun. 1.4 light-hrs to Saturn |
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| .: Does light travel farther in a leap year? // Yup. An extra 16 billion miles. About 2x the diameter of Pluto's orbit |
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| . There are light-years. How about light-months? // They're just not useful. No known objects light-months away. |
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| Use any time. Light travels about a foot in a billionth of a second. So people near you are typically light-nanosecods away. |
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| Yup. Europeans get their Fibonacci day on 5 Aug 2013. And after the next one in the USA (August 13, 2021) there are no more. |
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| FibonacciSeries: Each number is the sum of the two previous numbers. Shows up in cool places in Nature, like Golden Spirals. |
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| [May 8, 2013] Happy Fibonacci day: 0 - 1 - 1 - 2 - 3 - [ 5 - 8 - 13 ] - 21 - 34 - 55 - 89 - 144 … Next one is Aug 13, 2021 |
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| If Wolves were in charge they'd surely indict humans for cruel genetic manipulations of their species to create Yorkies. |
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| JUST POSTED: StarTalk, Cosmic Queries Edition "Asteroids Comets & Meteors" w/. iTunes & |
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| If butterflies were in charge, I wonder if they'd capture humans, put us on display, and admire our beauty & our differences? |
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| .: How do you define the difference between education & school? // I care more for ideas than for definitions. |
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| Try as I might, I cannot resist this geek-laden, lisp-inducing, annual utterance: "May the fourth be with you." |
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