Animals have private thoughts too

Really. Until recently we thought only humans and chimps could recognize their own images in a mirror, and indication of self-awareness. Ind...

Mount St. Helens wouldn't get a license

Really. When Mount St. Helens started erupting in early October 2004, it was pumping out between 50 and 250 tons a day of sulfur dioxide, th...

Successful brain surgery...with rocks?

Really. This surgery, called trephining or trepanning, removes a piece the skull from a living patient to expose a layer of the brain, the d...

The Arctic Tern enjoys an “Endless Summer”

Really. This small avian travels from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back again each year, a 22, 000 mile round-trip! It does this again...

Only 3% of you is real

Really...sorta. Most of what you are is actually energy trapped in a field--but, then, that's real too, it's just not the squishy pi...

Just 1 second of the Sun's energy output would power the US for 9,000,000 years

Really . Or to use a more “explosive” illustration, multiply the world’s entire nuclear stockpile seven million times and detonate it. That’...

Shut off gravity and time would stop

Really. There's nothing else that 'holds up' space and time other than the gravitational field of the universe Time and space ar...

The stars cause influenza

Nope, that's foolishness. The word 'influenza' actually is derived from the medieval Latin influentia , meaning influence, becau...

Something free is usually worth what you pay

Thanks for the offer of a free 'reading,' Lynn (see her comment on the previous post). How 'bout this: I'll send you a coupl...

You can watch the Big Bang on TV

Really. You can actually see it if you tune a TV to a channel where no station is broadcasting...what you'll see a TV signal that was se...

You could put your hand in a bucket of Sun

Really. Although the surface of the Sun is about 10,000ºF (6000ºK), it's not very dense --about one ten-thousandth of the Earth's se...

Everyone on Earth would fit in a cubic mile

Really. You could put the entire population of the Earth in a space one mile wide, one mile deep, and one mile high (one cubic mile). We...

We'll run out of oil in 50 years.

While we're talking cubic miles here, consider this: World consumption of oil is about 30 billion barrels per year. One barrel of oil is...

Your brain burns 20% of your body's energy even thought it's only about 5% of your body weight.

Really. We've known for over 100 years that parts of the brain control their own blood supply depending on how much oxygen they need. We...

Earth's curve tilts bridges

Really. The top of towers of the Verrazano - Narrows Bridge at the mouth of the Hudson river in New York City are tilted almost two inches f...

The Sun never sets

Really. Then why do we call the beautiful daily events 'sunrise' and 'sunset'? It's astounding that we still use langua...

Only 10% of the cells in your body are human

There are about ten times more bacteria cells in your body than there are cells with human DNA. According to Dr. Cynthia Sears at Johns Hop...

Humans and chimpanzees are more closely related genetically than African elephants (big ears) and Asian elephants (small ears).

Really. In fact, there's more diversity within the human genome ( 85% ) than there is between humans and chimps (who share 96% of the...