David Lewis.
Was a prominent analytic philosopher. One of his most influential ideas revolved around the concept of possible worlds.
Lewis believed there is an infinite number of possible worlds, each different from our own to different degrees. An important feature of these possible worlds is that we can compare them based on their relative distance from our real world.
This feature was the basis for many of Lewis's theories - for example, Lewis believed that event A is a cause of event B if and only if, in the closest possible world where A didn't occur, B didn't occur either.
1986
The U.S. Army promoted Donald Duck to the rank of Sergeant and retired him from active duty.
Donald was never officially separated from service in any of his wartime cartoons or comics.
2017
Halleyβs Comet will pass over Earth again on 26th July 2061.
The famous comet was last seen on 9th February, 1986 and only orbits the Earth once every 75 β 76 years.
2020
Scientists Attached Stilts to the Legs of Ants to Prove that they Return to their Nests by Counting their Steps..
The regular ants walked right to the nest and went inside. The ants on stilts walked right past the nest and got lost.
There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand in the world.
There are 10 times more stars in the night sky, with 70 sextillion stars being visible.
2012
The Sputnik virophage is a parasite of a parasite of a parasite.
It's a parasite of Mamavirus, which infects Acanthamoeba, which can infect humans.
2020
Liechtenstein & Uzbekistan, the only double landlocked countries in the world.
A country is "double-landlocked" when it is surrounded only by landlocked countries
2020
Amazon aims to be carbon neutral by 2040.
Raising the stakes in the eco-friendly delivery wars, Amazon said it has ordered 100,000 electric delivery vans
2019
Cheese is the most stolen food in the world.
Cheese is stolen at a much higher rate than other foods, according to Global Retail Theft Barometer and Checkpoint Systems.
2012
In βAs We May Thinkβ (1949), Vannevar Bush imagines the βmemexβ, a desk-like device where people could search through a library of articles.
This is why we created pointpress
1949
the United States Army had a tactical deception unit called "Ghost Army".
during the WW2, soldiers, their job was to deceive the enemy by inflatable tanks, sound trucks, and fake radio transmissions
2020
The one and only British grown Chocolate.
a factory in York tried growing cacao in the inhospitable British weather, but harvested only enough for one small bar
2020
Virginia Woolf.
Writing Mrs Dalloway, where she skewered the role of βthe perfect housewifeβ and sowed the seeds for the feminist movement of the 1970s
2020
CrazyPetFood.com was a pet food company based near Colchester & Chemsford in Essex. They provided all types of food & grooming tools.
Sadly, this company no longer exists.
2017
There are 88 recognized star constellations in our night sky.
These 88 constellations cover the Earthβs night sky and can be observed from the southern and northern hemispheres.
2012
In 2006, the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet.
This is because Pluto does not gravitationally dominate the neighborhood around its orbit
2019
The Bone Wars. In the late 1800s two Rival Paleontologists Sought to Disgrace each other.
Both paleontologists were ruined financially, but their efforts led to the discovery of 136 new species of dinosaurs.
Pirates wore earrings because they believed it improved their eyesight.
they believed that the precious metals in an earring possessed magical healing powers.
2011
The Potato and Tomato are both Native to Peru. Though commonly associated with Eurasian culinary traditions.
Both plants were unknown to the eastern hemisphere until 500 years ago.
2019
