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Philippine island qualifies its way to a “World’s Largest” title

Qualifiers are a lot of fun. Example: Greenland is the world's largest island. The world's largest lake is the Caspian Sea. But the world's largest island on a lake, on an island, on a lake, on an island? Then the title goes to Volcan Point in the ...
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Science Is Imagination

To those who think “scientism” — the belief that science can potentially explain everything — indicates a lack of imagination: It took a vast leap of imagination for Max Planck to think of gas molecules in the Sun to behave like little springs, oscillating away, able to eject only specific colors of light. It took a [...]
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Old Age Begins at 27

Mental abilities decline starting at 27. Depressing.
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Harkin Is Disappointed

Senator Tom Harkin is disappointed that an alternative medicine center he helped to fund has been disproving alternative therapies. “One of the purposes of this center was to investigate and validate alternative approaches. Quite frankly, I must say publicly that it has fallen short,” Harkin said. The senator went on to lament that, since its inception in [...]
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Magenta Is Not a Real Color

This is interesting. In the electromagnetic spectrum, there is no such color as magenta. Colors reside in the visible spectrum, with ultraviolet on one side and infrared on the other. Violet has the shortest wavelength, and red has the longest. Blues and greens and yellows all live between the two, but there’s nowhere for a [...]
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