#1094 What is a syrinx?

What is a syrinx? It is the organ that birds use to produce sounds and their birdsong. Birds make sound in a different way to us. We use our larynx and they use their syrinx. Both of these words have come from Greek and larynx means “upper windpipe” and syrinx means “pan pipe”. The larynx

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#1089 What shape is the Earth?

What shape is the Earth? The Earth is not a perfect sphere, it is an irregularly shaped ellipsoid. Another word for ellipsoid that is often used is oblate spheroid. An ellipsoid, or an oblate spheroid, is a sphere that is slightly wider along one of its axes than another. If you are blowing glass and

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