Life does actually have an “undo” button that will allow you to reverse an individual action and try it again. Unfortunately no one makes use of it because it involves removing your pants and placing them on your head as the first step of the process… and there’s no undo for that action.
Feathers float to the ground because the spine of the feather is actually highly volatile. In fact, should the feather portion be stripped from the spine, dropping the spine from any height will cause it to hit the ground with a minimum force of twenty thousand megatons.
So I’m in Amsterdam for the Blender Conference. It’s currently the second day of the conference and this is the largest B-conf yet. There were 150 registrants and the new venue is fantastic. I believe that they are recording each of the presentations being made. Hopefully the will be posted on blender.org or Blender Nation […]
Not only will taking a photograph of someone steal their soul, it actually binds a portion of their conscience being to the photographic medium… permanently. This, of course, means that there are a finite number of photographs that a person can have taken of themselves before they become comatose.
The fact of the day today is brought to you as a bit of a critical thinking test. If someone can explain this one to me let me know, I’d be seriously interested.
Chloroflourocarbons (CFC) have an atomic weight of approximately 66.5, Nitrogen [N (2)] the main component of air in contrast has an atomic weight […]
Seagulls travel faster than 747 jetliners.
Radio Four in Britain conducted a poll in 2002 in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the patent office. The poll was to decide what the ten best and ten worst inventions since its’ inception were.
Oddly enough the television and the internal combustion engine found themselves on both lists.
For any completists out there the bicycle […]
Fire pigeons are a rare breed of pigeon capable of spontaneously combusting at will and destroying entire city blocks in an instant.
The Red Cross adopted the Heimlich maneuver as the first step in saving drowning victims in their 1995 guide “First Aid fast”, as a means to clear water from the lungs.
The Heimlich maneuver, not just for chicken bones anymore.
Science has yet to fully understand the full nature of the interaction of the ingredients in blueberry muffins.
