Category: Surprising
100 Feet in 1000 Years
For four successive millennia, the ocean level rose one hundred feet in each thousand year period.
Elliptical Orbits and Center of Mass
The planets' orbitals are elliptical because astronomical measurements are made to the center of the sun rather than the center of mass of the system.
Staircase of Science
Science has lost of the thread of life going down the staircase, perhaps that's why it can't find free will on the way up.
Some Brain Connections are Not Complete until Your 20s
One's mental maturity, the age at which a person is able to integrate the full power of their thoughts, is reached more than a decade after puberty.
Agents of Human Evolution
Nature experiments more freely in evolution with the male of the species.
Rate of Evolution, Rate of Mutation
I always thought the rate of evolution was equal to the rate of mutation, but that's not right.
Increments of tiny things can add up to something large
Significant changes do occur although daily or even yearly the incremental changes are barely noticeable.