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Mackerel & Tuna
18 with Freedom to Explore, Know and LearnLittle bits of everything for everyone or perhaps just for me
Everything is Interesting
- me after running for one minute: i'm still alive, but i'm barely breathing
[The] average daydream is about fourteen seconds long and [we] have about two thousand of them per day. In other words, we spend about half of our waking hours — one-third of our lives on earth — spinning fantasies.
The Storytelling Animal – the science of how we came to live and breathe stories. (via explore-blog)
Some interesting science pointing to daydreams as a crucible of creativity.
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WAAAALKIN ON SUUUNSHIIINE WOOOAAH OOOHH
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Strange but True: Earth Is Not Round ›
If Earth is a blue marble, it’s certainly not one you’d want to depend on in the chalk circle. Instead of being a sphere, it’s actually far more irregular (and not just the mountains, duh). Charles Q. Choi lays out lots of oddities about our lumpy planet at SciAm.
Here’s some tidbits:
- Earth is actually an oblate spheroid, bigger at the equator than at the poles.
- Gravity is unevenly distributed around Earth, which looks something like this when you draw it.
- Areas of the crust and mantle are still rising up to a centimeter a year after being crushed beneath the weight of glaciers during the ice age.
I hope that the Earth doesn’t feel self-conscious, though. Because we all have our imperfections. And this lumpy ball of dirt and magma is the only home we have.
