EnringedIt Causes Great Excitement.
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“He began exercising in early childhood. “My father used to take me on a four-mile walk from Glasgow once a week, when I was a schoolboy. We used to aim to do the four miles in an hour. If we did that OK, I got an ice-cream. If we did it in even a minute less, I got a choc-ice. “Many years later, when I became interested in these things, I challenged him, and he had no idea where he got this four miles an hour from. I was eager for a quote, you see. And he couldn’t produce it. Except, ‘It’s always been a habit.’”
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How did some whales evolve to their current sizes, and why aren’t they much larger?
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“In Terry Pratchett’s The Last Continent, the thaum is the unit used to quantify magic. One thaum is the amount of mystical energy required to conjure up one small white pigeon, or three normal-sized billiard balls, and can be measured, up to one million thaums, by a thaumometer. If there is more magic than that around, measuring it should not be your primary concern.”¶ 2 years ago
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» The Mysterious Equilibrium of Zombies
On the other hand, if you were a mathematician, you would also be noticing that the animated pattern of playing-card clubs, as they hypnotically subdivide on screen, starts to look an awful lot like a fractal.
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» Timeline of Science Fiction Inventions
Kudos! This is amazing work.
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» Up, up and away! Scientists levitate mice.
“It actually kicked around and started to spin, and without friction, it could spin faster and faster, and we think that made it even more disoriented.”
