Stars twinkle because light is disrupted as it passes through Earth’s atmosphere.
Their light must pass through pockets of Earth's atmosphere that vary in temperature and density
2012
Red Dwarf stars that are low in mass can burn continually for up to 10 trillion years.
A Red Dwarf is a small and cool star in a later stage of its life
2020
In the 1995 Halloween episode of The Simpsons, Homer Simpson finds a portal to the mysterious Third Dimension behind a bookcase, and desperate to escape his in-laws, he plunges through. He finds himself wandering across a dark surface etched with green gridlines and strewn with geometric shapes, above which hover strange equations. One of these is the deceptively simple assertion that P = NP.
The biggest unsolved mystery in Computer Science explained, the question that will earn 1M dollars to the first person to prove the answer. If answered as yes, this question will change the world of Computer Science as we know it today.
2009
There are 88 recognized star constellations in our night sky.
These 88 constellations cover the Earth’s night sky and can be observed from the southern and northern hemispheres.
2012
The International Space Station circles Earth every 92 minutes.
In one day, the station travels about the distance it would take to go from Earth to the moon and back.
2018
Parrots native to Argentina Roaming around New Jersey for over 30 years..
There are now about 200 Quaker parrots living in Edgewater and other nearby towns
2019
William Safire's speech if Apollo 11 became Stranded on the Moon..
"Mission Control would use their euphemism, 'close down communication,' and the men would have to either starve or commit suicide,"
2019
'Captain Tom' a 99 Year old man, Raises more than $31 Million for UK Health service by Walking 100 Laps of his Garden...
Everyone can find a way to help
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
In the 16th Century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if they didn’t provide enough coffee for them.
By the late 15th century coffee had become a common beverage in the Near East, but the Ottoman Turks had mastered the art of it
2017
Despite the methodological limitations, the finding that 50 of the 64 reviewed studies revealed an association between diet and AD incidence offers promising implications for diet as a modifiable risk factor for AD.
but most studies show diet is promising for Alzheimer's
2016
John Stuart Mill.
advocated strongly for the preserving of individual rights and called for limitations to the power and authority of the state over the indiv
2016
The accidental death of Yogi Bear.
when baseball player Yogi Berra died, the Associated Press obituary accidentally announced the death of Yogi Bear.
2015
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
Humans DNA is 40% the same as bananas.
think of human DNA as a blueprint of a ranch home and banana DNA as that of a colonial-style home. In each house, a bunch of things are similar but the end products are both quite different.
2019
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
