THE THREE LITTLE PIGS This is a true story, proving how fascinating the mind of a six year old is. They think so logically..... A teacher was reading the story of the 'Three Little Pigs' to her class....
At 186,000 miles per second it takes about 8 minutes for light to reach here from the sun. Heat, I believe, does not travel so fast, so 1. How does it seem to get here at the same time? and 2 .How...
Have you noticed that, if you flick the pages of a thick book with white pages in the light of a fluorescent tube, you can see alternating bands of colour? I see blue and orange, but I don't know if...
When people say that the life expectancy of a man in this country (UK) is 79 (or whatever it is), what does it mean? It surely cannot mean that a boy born today will have a 50/50 chance of living to...
The primary colours are red, blue, and green, the three (approximate) colours that the human retina is most sensitive to. Light entering the eye will be recognised as a particular colour according to...
When did we start calling actresses "actors"? It seems to me that there is nothing wrong with the word "actress" - it's not demeaning and, so far as i know, it has no pejorative overtones. But now I...
Not really a question, just an observation/moan. Has anyone else noted the number of people, including those who should definately know better, ie newsreaders who say 'nothink' instead of 'nothing'?...
How widely is the metric system used in the USA? I know that NASA use kilometres/hour etc. but is the system used in other engineering projects or by schools and colleges?
The phrase i hate at the moment is when someone replies they go "you get me ". The one i used to hate was know what i mean But i say a terrible one and i think i have picked it up from Eastenders , i...
Whenever I go swimming when instructed to float, I sink. This has always been the case much to the frustaration and bamboozlement of swimming coaches. Aparantly floating is a natural ability for...
there are certain phrases i wish to irradicate from society as they have no use except to annoy me "To Be Honest" why oh why unless your a pathological liar do you need to tell me that you are about...