Memory can be easily distorted.
The car crash experimenters found that the use of different verbs affected the participantsβ memories of an accident
2014
Determinism.
Is a philosophical view according to which evrything has a reason. More precisely, Determinism is commited to two propositions, as phrased by Peter Van Inwagen:
1. For any moment in time, we can write a list of facts that describe precisely that moment and only it.
2. If A is a proposition that describes one moment in time, and L is the propostion that describes the laws of nature, A and L together entail all other descriptions of points in time.
#1 tells us that each moment in time is different and can be described. #2 tells us that if we know everything about one point in time and all the laws of nature, we can deduce what happened before and after that point.
1975
The inventor of the Frisbee was cremated and made into a Frisbee after he died.
This is not the only time Inventors were preserved as their passions
2012
High social anxiety = high empathy.
A study found that high empathy may make socially anxious individuals more sensitive and attentive to other peopleβs states of mind
2011
In choosing what language you would like Facebook to appear in, users could once choose βEnglish (Pirate)β.
Unfortunately for all ye internet buccaneers, Facebook removed this option.
2020
Pound cake got its name from its recipe.
The early recipes of pound cake called for one pound of butter, one pound of eggs, and one pound of sugar
2020
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
the Berlin Wall came down by mistake.
When a reporter asked when it would be opened, the party official mistakenly said "Immediately, without delay" causing a run on the wall
2020
The Meadows is served by several stops of the Nottingham Express Transit system. Both line 1 and line 2 pass through the Meadows.
Very helpful. Thanks!
2020
Saint Lucia is the only country in the world named after a woman.
certain territories may be named after women such as the Virgin Islands but Saint Lucia is the only sovereign state among them
2018
Samuel J. Seymour, a five-year-old boy who witnessed the Lincoln assassination.
At 96 Seymour was a guest on the TV show. he felt bad for Booth, thinking Booth had fallen out of the box
2020
The Micronesian island of Yap is known for its stone money.
They use large doughnut-shaped, carved disks of calcite, some as large as 13 ft in diameter
2018
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 minimum sound threshold a human ear drum can detect is 1x10^-12 watts/square meter. To put in perspective just how sensitive that is, if.
To put in perspective just how sensitive that is, if our ear drum was the size of England, it could detect the weight of a banana on it.
2020
Agricultural Pollution.
Agriculture contributes greatly to soil erosion and sediment deposition through intensive management or inefficient land cover
2020
