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Category:
science
Buoyancy
Iceberg orientation
Parallax
Orbit
Redshift
Physics Envy
Brilliance bias
Sampling bias
You get what you measure
States of matter
The BS asymmetry principle
The Keeling curve
What is a blue moon?
The beard cycle
Moon pool
Earth is a big magnet.
The potato radius
Stalactites, Stalagmites
Bortle Scale
Animals that regenerate
Phases of the moon
Moore’s Law
How to tell a centipede from a millipede
Asteroids, meteors and meteorites
Sleepy foods
The Plimsoll line
Thunder clouds
Darwin’s 5 principles of Natural Selection
Curly hair is oval
Know your clouds
The magic of soap
Make a wine glass sing
Our atmosphere is as thick for the Earth a the skin on an apple
Dark and light are the keys to one-way mirrors
The position of a rainbow is predictable
Glacial erratic
Pollution is highly localized: take the back streets
Give air a pathway to avoid glugging
Why ice doesn’t sink
Supermoon
More is different
Anatomy of a wave
On microwaves
Incredibly, we only ever see one side of the moon
the Angle of Incidence equals the Angle of Reflection
Sonar + Echolocation