My favorite estimate of size:
10 Likes
13 Likes
6 Likes
Three states — Arizona, California and Nevada — have agreed on a plan to conserve at least 3 million acre-feet of water by 2026 — roughly the equivalent to the amount of water it would take to fill 6 million Olympic-sized swimming pools.
9 Likes
11 Likes
8 Likes
That Randall gave a volume for Broca’s area bothers me (probably more than it should)
7 Likes
With added spurious accuracy of decimal places in the body of the article. We can’t possibly just quote temperatures in Celcius as they were in the original Instagram post.
4 Likes
I was thinking the same thing when I read that
2 Likes
Why not a pinball? Unless they’re trying to insinuate that the earth is flat…
3 Likes
I’m sure everyone is as relieved as I am to see the typo is fixed, and Broca’s area is no longer a volume.
6 Likes
Also, Science FTW.
Relevant part:
For comparison, H. naledi’s brain was around the size of a grapefruit, and a human brain is the size of a medium cantaloupe.
Archive version: https://archive.ph/F4x4i
10 Likes
“Sheep to ram” sounds like a size range.
9 Likes
Soda can?? My preferred measure for length is the pop can.
Also, sorry about your short tenure as the long-tongue champ Bisbee. You are still a good boy.
9 Likes
At least they’re being topical:
12 Likes
It’s going to capsize a comms satellite, isn’t it.
11 Likes
