May 2006
CNN.com - Chicken and egg debate unscrambled - May 26, 2006
by 1 other (via)先有雞或是先有雞蛋？Quote: "Therefore, the first living thing which we could say unequivocally was a member of the species would be this first egg," he added. "So, I would conclude that the egg came first."
New Scientist Invention blog: Human cannonballs
(via)Quote: Compressed air from a cylinder underneath would be rapidly released to shoot the chair up the ramp's guide rails. At the top the chair would come to an instant halt, leaving the person to fly up and over the edge of the roof, to hopefully land safely on top of the building.
LiveScience.com - Why We Lie
(via)Quote: The study, published in the Journal of Basic and Applied Psychology, found that 60 percent of people had lied at least once during the 10-minute conversation, saying an average of 2.92 inaccurate things
March 2006
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