#787 Is “I think therefore I am” true?
Is “I think therefore I am” true? Probably. “I think therefore I am” is probably the most famous philosophical quotation of all time. It is probably the only one that…
Is “I think therefore I am” true? Probably. “I think therefore I am” is probably the most famous philosophical quotation of all time. It is probably the only one that…
Why do woodpeckers peck wood? They are trying to find food, mark their territory, find a mate, or make a nest. There are 240 different species of woodpecker, and they…
How can opera singers sing so loud? By training their diaphragm, their lungs, using their mouths to amplify the sound as much as possible, and adjusting the frequency of the…
How did a pterodactyl fly? By jumping 2.5 meters into the air and then flapping. These days, we use pterodactyl to refer to any of the flying dinosaurs that looked…
Why do we say “hack writer” and “quack doctor”? Hack comes from Hackney and quack comes from quacksalver, the Dutch for a seller of medicines. A hack has a negative…
Why did Michelangelo hide in a cellar? He had been sentenced to death by Pope Clement VII. Michelangelo was born near Florence in 1475. At the time, Florence was a…
How does cold reading work? It is a method of reading a person you don’t know in order to get information. It is the opposite of hot reading, where the…
What is the steepest railway track a train can go up? The steepest track is the Calçada de São Francisco in Portugal, and it has an incline of 13.8%. This…
Why was the First World War fought in trenches but the Second World War wasn’t? Amongst many other reasons, because in World War 1, the armies were faced with weapon…
How was a mummy made? Along with many other steps, a mummy was made by emptying the body, preserving and drying it, and then carefully wrapping it. The mummies from…