Archive for the ‘Weight/Mass’ Category
Monday, July 28th, 2008
So, I recently got the idea of "billions and billions" in my head, thanks to memories of Carl Sagan, and wondered how many "billions and billions" is, particularly in respect to the Milky Way galaxy.
According to the Physics Factbook, the consensus among modern theorists seems to be that the number ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
I know it's been a little while since my last post and it may seem odd for me to do a second post in a row about smoking, but last month I marked 1 year since I'd last had a cigarette or any sort of tobacco use, and it got ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
So, I know I said no posts this week to save my eyes, but this is going to be a short one.
Reader Joel dropped me a note asking my opinion about his math on a Metafilter post about bidis. In it, he points out a page that makes some ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Friday's column, where we figured out the weight of the air inside an airhead, made me think on the topic of the volume of a skull and what else could fit in there besides 17 featherweights of air. Fourteen-hundred cubic centimeters of volume in a human skull, 1.4 liters, ...
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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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Friday, May 9th, 2008
A Quick Announcement: Last Friday's "Your Weight In..." calculator has been updated to calculate the value of your weight in Spam, foie gras, and Snausages. This is in addition to your weight in gold, crude oil, lard, pretzels, pennies, and Hummers.
And Now Back To Our Regularly Scheduled Programming... ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
We've all heard someone say some other person was worth his/her weight in gold. If you haven't, you've probably been living in a cave. But if you were worth your weight in gold, how much would you be worth? Well, you can try our new handy dandy calculator below ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
I was recently reading an article in which someone was quoted as saying a problem they faced was costing "a ton of money." Of course, his ton was figurative, merely meaning "a lot," but it got me thinking... just how much is a ton of money worth?
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Every once in a while, when they do a news story about aircraft carriers, the "landing on a moving postage stamp" metaphor is used to describe trying to set a fighter jet down on the flight deck safely. One of the more entertaining Rough Equivalents for a carrier landing ...
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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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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
It's a very long distance around our planet, very long indeed. With a diameter of approximately 8,000 miles we multiply by Pi (3.14159) to get the circumference (distance around) and come up with roughly 25,132 miles around.
If you believe Wikipedia's facts about Earth, it's 25,046.5 miles. ...
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