Archive for the ‘Volume’ Category
Friday, May 30th, 2008
In past posts, I've talked about how heavy things are, but what about how light they are?
Over the Memorial Day Weekend, my mom and stepdad visited to celebrate her birthday, and as I was describing this little experiment in blogging to her, she suggested I use "light as a feather" ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Gas stations in the USA have been selling gas at prices ending in 9/10ths of a cent for decades. Depending on who you ask, the practice dates back to the Great Depression or farther, and there are varying reasons given for it. The most often agreed-upon reason for ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
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We all know the tongue twister: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?" But not a lot of people know the answer, which is: "it depends."
A peck is not a count, like a dozen. ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
This weekend I pulled out my trusty kitchen scale, a half-cup measure, placed the measure on the scale, zeroed it out, and began spooning in Jello Brand Chocolate Pudding from pudding cups I got in the refrigerated aisle. I wanted to determine the pudding's weight by volume, because I'd ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
I was reading an article about farts in which flatulence expert Dr. Michael D. Levitt (a.k.a. Doctor Fart) was quoted as saying that the average human male farts 110 milliliters of gas.
There's an urban legend about a man who suffocated on his own farts. It states that he farted ...
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