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“The “north” end of a magnet is the one that points toward the Earth’s north pole, which means the Earth’s north magnetic pole is technically a south magnetic pole, and vice versa.”
― What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
― What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
“whalers in Nantucket if not the world. In 1823 Valentine Starbuck was chartered by the King and Queen of Hawaii to take them on a trip to England, where the unfortunate royal pair died of measles.”
― The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
― The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
“Meaning is something we ascribe to things in order to understand them. Reality itself is meaningless. Once this jagged, little pill digests within us, it unlocks a beautiful gift: free will.”
― The Art of Talking to Yourself
― The Art of Talking to Yourself
“You’d also run into problems scaling up the retina—if you made the individual cells bigger, they’d no longer be able to detect visible light wavelengths.”
― What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
― What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
“If we look at a polka-dot shirt with dots 5 centimeters apart, then we can use the visibility distance formula to calculate that if you see the shirt from more than 200 meters away, the individual dots won’t be visible and it will look like the fabric is a solid color.”
― What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
― What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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