When John Milton wrote in Paradise Lost that the mind can make a heaven of hell and a hell of heaven, without realizing it, he was talking about the “placebo” and the “nocebo” effect. “Placebo”...
If you've watched the Big Bang theory or taken some science classes you've probably heard of something called the Uncertainty Principle. This theory, which looks like this in formula form: ΔpΔx = h...
If you've made hot cocoa with powder, you've probably experienced the dark sludge at the bottom of the cup. This chocolate goop seems unavoidable, despite being absolutely certain that you...
Eventually we will run out of oil. There is no doubt about that. The earth is of a fixed size, and the amount of oil stored in the ground is not infinite. We take it out of the ground and do not...
An idiot is dumber than an imbecile, who is dumber than a moron. The word “moron” was first derived from the Greek in 1910 to identify individuals with an IQ score between 51 and 70. It may sound...
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