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Category Archives: Science
July Grab Bag o’ Humour
Giant hogweed had a nicer name when it was first exported to North America from Asia. It was supposed to be a nice, big, decorative plant. Oh, the folly of our ancestors! It spread easily and it quite earned the … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, History, Science, Social Science, Sports
Tagged "Gen Z", Argentina, Asia, baby boomers, Canada, Chile, Copa America, Everyone's a Winner, giant hogweed, Hot Chocolate, Lionel Messi, Millennials, North America, participation trophies, Peru, plant is named properly now, reacts to UV in sunlight, sap on outside of stem, soccer, team Canada, Uruguay, Venezuela
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To a Quieter Future
I will not be sad when motorcycles become quieter electric vehicles. Too many times they have loudly shaken the street I’m on, just to get from point A to point B. My entreaties to make them use mufflers that actually … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Politics, Science
Tagged a quieter future, airshows, Canada Day, Diwali, electric vehicles, EVs, fireworks are tough on animals, fireworks day, If you must be loud use private tracks, Kitchener, lit up drones, May long weekend, motorcycles, mufflers that work, noise pollution, silent drone shows, sportscars, trucks, Vroom, Woosh
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Do You Really Want to Live to 100?
One of my life goals was always to live to 100. More and more people are doing so. Why not me? Well this is a common area of interest, so much so, that it has brought people to study this. … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Humour, Science, Social Science
Tagged bean filled diet, beans, blue zones, chronic pain, climate change, confined to bed, global warming, health, healthwise you are supposed to breathe through nose, healthy lives at great ages, is living to 100 conditional, keep nose plugged, living to 100, methane, noise problem, peers to age with, smelly problem, the more you eat the more you toot, why they are called blue zones
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45 Year Old, Pristine O-Pee-Chee Gum Found
768 pieces of O-Pee-Chee gum was found still in its original packaging from 1979. There is one case of 16 boxes with 48 sealed packages. There has been much talk of keeping the case pristine, so too, the boxes and … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Science, Sports
Tagged 14 hockey cards per piece of gum, 25-30 Wayne Gretzky rookie cards possible, 45 years old, bubble gum, case of hockey cards found, collectors, gambling, mass spectrometer, O-Pee-Chee gum, Ontario's past polluted air, spectroscopy, sport cards, sugar is great preservative, test gum on grad student, this gum would last at least a year, Wayne Gretzky
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Shortening Doctor Titles
Have you ever noticed that the English version of words is generally shorter? I don’t know about all languages but by comparison with French, the English version is usually shorter than the same thing stated in French. This is not … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Language, Science
Tagged acronyms, anesthesiologist, ankh, cancer, colonoscopy, derm, dermatologist, doctor titles, endo, endocronologist, english is brief, French is longer, Jennifer Garner, life, onc, oncologist, proctologist, shortening, thesi
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Leaning Towers
I’m not sure quite how they do it but architects and engineers seem to know when the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Millennium Tower in San Francisco are relatively stable. They’ve held up this long so far. But maybe, … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged architects, dynamic soil-structure interaction, earthquake will likely take out Millennium Tower, engineers, I'll never live in the Millennium Tower, Leaning Tower of Pisa, major earthquakes have shook Pisa, Maybe you could predict when a tower of pizza falls, Millennium Tower of San Francisco, San Francisco gets earthquakes, tower hasn't fallen
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Don’t Believe We’ve Been on the Moon?
I could try to lead you to that revelation. Like saying we can easily see satellites circling and the International Space Station, if you cared to actually observe. Getting to the moon is only a couple steps beyond this. But … Continue reading
Posted in Pseudo Science, Science, Sports, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged 12 Moon walkers, 400 attempts to climb Everest in year, air too thin, ditching spent oxygen tanks, Edmund Hillary, Everest, Hillary knighted, International Space Station, made up story, Moon, Moon unbelievers don't tell me about your climbing adventures, Moon walkers, need to carry oxygen tanks, partied at base camp, plan saved many lives, satellites, scaled since 1953, Tenzing Norgay, There are way more Everest climbers, true believers go up and never come down
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August 2023 Grab Bag o’ Humour
I just saw that scientists are trying to mimic meat more completely, with new textures. I was about to go “Yay science,” when I realized that I like things right where they are, now. I like the taste of the … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Humour, Science, Social Science
Tagged Farty Mcfartface, fibres get stuck in your teeth, Gnorman Gnormal, licence plates pan swear words, meat is fibrous, meat substitutes might become cheaper than meat, meat texture, naming, school name, toothpicks, transgender, vegetarian meat substitutes
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Swift Quake
Did you hear about the Swift quake at the Taylor Swift concert in Seattle? That’s right, Swifties’ dancing combined with the sound system are believed to have caused tiny earthquakes, the largest of which was 2.3 on the Richter scale. … Continue reading