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Amazing science facts

Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Not sure where to post this ...

Makes an interesting Google search.

Here's a few facts you may not have been aware of before -

The human brain takes in 11 million bits of information every second but is aware of only 40.

A single bolt of lightning contains enough energy to cook 100,000 pieces of toast.

There are 8 times as many atoms in a teaspoonful of water as there are teaspoonfuls of water in the Atlantic ocean.

The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.

If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.

More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.

40 Interesting Science Facts That Will Blow Your Socks Off | UrbanTimes

Enjoy!
 
sun rise

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
Oh boy - there are some "juicy" ones there. Two of my favorites:

29. Attention spans are getting shorter. In 2000, the average attention span was 12 seconds. Now, it’s 8 seconds. That’s shorter than the 9-second attention span of the average goldfish.

63. Our brains crave mental stimulation, sometimes to a fault. Men especially would rather give themselves electric shocks than sit quietly in a room and think!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
sunrise123 said:
Our brains crave mental stimulation, sometimes to a fault. Men especially would rather give themselves electric shocks than sit quietly in a room and think!
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Reminds me of a great little book called "Siddhartha's Brain"!

Here's one section -

Scientists have unpicked the firing mechanism of isolated nerve cells, cracked their signalling code and are using increasingly sophisticated technology to interrogate the workings of the brain. But the operation of the three-pound organ we all carry around inside our skulls remain largely a mystery. If you didn't already know its wonderful and marvelous qualities such as consciousness, metacognition, language, love and creativity, you couldn't begin to predict its abilities from an examination of its individual components. The brain is so much more than the sum of its parts, not least because each of its 100 billion nerve cells is an information processing unit in its own right, interconnected with thousands of others and each densely populated region is just a single node in many interconnected networks. No wonder neuroscientists are still puzzling over what their MRI images and EEG traces actually mean. The scale of the challenge facing them is breathtaking. It's as if upon hearing an orchestra perform a violin concerto you were to attempt an "explanation" of the music by dismantling each instrument in turn. You would end up with a tangle of catgut, scraps of varnished wood and metal tubing, still none the wiser.

Cheers!
 
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