Gorgias

If you store your vegetables and fruit in your refrigerator, pay special attention to what you do with the apples and the mushrooms. Mushrooms release spores that speed up deterioration of all the other thing you keep next to it. Advised would be to keep the mushrooms in a paper bag, below the other food. Apples also emit something that affects the ripening speed of other fruits called ethylene. The smartest recommendation here would be to keep apples separated, in a specific bowl, outside of the refrigerator, and to refresh your stock weekly.

How much longer, do you think, is the Norwegian coastal line than it would have been without the fjords?

Jessica Alba joked about this when she played a well-known invisible super hero (I reckon the super hero isn’t always invisible; otherwise, a lot of money can be saved right there). When she’s invisible, she’s not supposed to be able to see either (invisible and blind, yes): the rods, the light-sensitive nerve cells in our eyes, cannot take impulses if they cannot reflect, reflectivity being the way we distinguish things. If an object has zero reflectivity, it probably has zero absorption as well, because nature doesn’t usually deal with extremes. Putting aside that this movie is not a documentary but a work of fiction.

The “birthday problem” is a mathematical problem (also called the “birthday paradox”, but outside of the mathematical context it is not a proper paradox) that shows that, from twenty-three people and upwards, the likeliness of a pair of people sharing the same birthday becomes and then rises well above fifty percent. Meaning, in a random selection of twenty-three people, the odds are one in two there is a pair of people with the same birthday. For sixty people, the chance is ninety-nine percent.

A black hole is said to be something that absorbs everything. The only way we can “see” black holes is that they leave places in the sky where we can see nothing.