Some further expansions of an article I think hit here:
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Why not a pinball? Unless they’re trying to insinuate that the earth is flat…
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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.
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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
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“Sheep to ram” sounds like a size range.
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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.
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At least they’re being topical:
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It’s going to capsize a comms satellite, isn’t it.
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You just revealed yourself to be an east-coaster. 
The milk-in-bags thing never made it to the west, and weirdly I lived into my forties before learning that was a thing over there.
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We had milk in bags in Saskatchewan when I was a kid but I don’t remember seeing it past the mid-late 80s. Since then it’s all cartons and 4L jugs.
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Living in Ontario, I’ve never thought of myself as an east-coaster, but I suppose it’s all a matter of perspective.
To answer @Simon_Clift, milk bags are sold three in a large 4 litre outer bag, so an individual milk bag is 1.3333… litres, or the size of a guinea pig.
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I’d seen bags of milk in both interior BC and Alberta, though a very long time ago.
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Weird, I grew up there and never saw them, going back to the 1970s.
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… something, something, set of all milk bags that do not contain themselves 
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Almost two baseballs wide!!
Or three and a half golf balls, if you prefer.
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I’d rather pass golf balls than baseballs!
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For a while the big box hardware store near me advertised toilets this way. “Can flush 29 golf balls!” I used to think “marketing for people with kids, or who don’t get enough fiber.”
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