{"id":430,"date":"2010-03-02T17:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/?p=430"},"modified":"2010-03-04T22:59:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T20:59:38","slug":"what-i-learned-last-week-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/02\/what-i-learned-last-week-35\/","title":{"rendered":"what i learned last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. time really does go by faster as you get older&#8230; the recent earthquake in chile moved the earth&#8217;s centre of gravity by about 8 cm, thus shortening the length of a day by 1.26 microseconds. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/technology\/story\/2010\/03\/02\/tech-nasa-earth-chile-quake.html\">link<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/blog\/post.cfm?id=how-the-earthquake-in-chile-changed-2010-03-02\">link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>1a. the effect of wind has a similar effect on the length of the day, but it&#8217;s 3oo times greater. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=did-the-earthquake-that-s\">link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. the large hadron collider gathers 40 terabytes of information per second during an experiment. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/specialreports\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15557421\">link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. sony finally figured out that 2010 is not a leap year&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/technology\/story\/2010\/03\/02\/tech-sony-playstation.html\">link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4. there is water on the moon. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8544635.stm\">link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>5. the story of lucy temerlin is worth learning. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lucy_Temerlin\">link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>6. if you plan to overthrow the united states government, it will cost you at least $5. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/cp\/Oddities\/100301\/K030106AU.html\">link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>7. if the loonie that tried to blow up a plane landing in detroit at christmas had been successful, he wouldn&#8217;t have done much damage to\u00a0 the plane. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/in_depth\/8547329.stm\">link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8. the rate of birth defects in fallujah are incredibly high, regardless of what the official reports tell you. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/8548961.stm\">link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>9. you have between 5,000 and 35,000 species of bacteria living in your intestines, but only 120 or so on your skin.<\/p>\n<p>10. one profitable way to dispose of toxic and\/or nuclear waste is to put it on a ship, and then scuttle it, claiming that the ship sank. there are people who track suspicious sinkings in an effort to follow this trend. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=poisoned-shipments-criminal-waste-disposal\">link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. time really does go by faster as you get older&#8230; 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