Updates to my new Superfactful Blog

Some of you who follow this, my Leonberger blog, know that I have launched a second blog. The goal of my second blog is to create a list of facts or insights that are important and not trivia, known to be true, and yet highly surprising, shocking, amazing, or widely disputed amongst the public but not disputed among the scientists or experts in the relevant fields. I refer to these facts as super-facts, because they are kind of special. However, on this new blog I will also post other fact related posts that I find interesting including non-fiction book reviews.

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Smash your old beliefs with new surprising facts, super facts. Expand your mind. Click on the image to visit the superfactful blog. Shutterstock ID: 1685660680 by MattL_Images

With this post I wanted to highlight some updates I’ve made to my other blog<<Link-1>>. First of all, I am including a short summary in bold at the beginning of all my super-fact posts. That way people who may just want to know what the fact is can read just this summary without having to read all the explanations, background and the evidence for it. Unfortunately, the full posts can get long and complicated sometimes. Below I am giving a couple of examples starting with my latest post “The Strange Worlds of Exo Planets”.

Superfact 13:

Our sun is a star, and it has 8 planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune (as well as comets, asteroids, dwarf planets, etc.). The stars you see when you look up in the sky also have planets. We have identified 5,765 exoplanets (as of July 24th, 2024) but there are billions more in our galaxy. Some exoplanets are similar to Earth, and some are very different from any of the planets in our solar system.

An astronaut is standing on the surface of an alien planet. He is surrounded by giant mushrooms and in the sky, there is a large moon or a planet.
Exoplanet with life Stock Illustration ID: 1524001694 by Dotted Yeti. Click on the image to visit my exoplanet post.

Another example is my second from last post “The United States is a Republic and a Democracy”

Superfact 12:

The United States is both a Republic and a Democracy

My third example is “The Speed of Light In Vacuum Is a Universal Constant”

Superfact 4 :

The speed of light in vacuum is the same for all observers regardless of their speed and the direction in which they are going. It is always c = 299,792,458 meters per second. If you try to catch up to a light beam and travel close to the speed of light the speed of the light beam will still be c = 299,792,458 meters per second compared to you. This is possible because time and space don’t behave like we expect.

Another change that I made is that I improved my list of upcoming super-facts. I made the list the first 50 super-facts list instead of 40 and I changed the list a little bit. This is the new list.

Below is a list of the first 50 super-fact posts

  • (1) We Know That the Earth is Billions of Years Old – click to visit
  • (2) Some Things Cannot be Known – click to visit
  • (3) Economic Externalities Are Spoilers of Free Markets – click to visit
  • (4) The Speed of Light In Vacuum Is a Universal Constant – click to visit
  • (5) Two events may be simultaneous for some but not for others – click to visit
  • (6) Radon Represents our Largest Exposure to Ionizing Radiation – click to visit
  • (7) Poverty and child mortality has been sharply reduced worldwide – click to visit
  • (8) US violent crime nearly cut in half since 1990 – click to visit
  • (9) We are living in relatively peaceful times – click to visit
  • (10) We are Star Dust – click to visit
  • (11) United States Europe and the Pacific Ocean Are Bigger Than You Might Think – click to visit
  • (12) The United States is a Republic and a Democracy – click to visit
  • (13) The Strange Worlds of Exo Planets – click to visit
  • (14) The vastness of space and the beginning of infinity – click to visit
  • (15) The Bizarre Reality of Black Holes – click to visit
  • (16) Wind power is providing more than a quarter of Texas Power – click to visit
  • (17) Wind power is not a major cause of bird death – click to visit
  • (18) We know that global warming is real and is caused by us – click to visit
  • (19) The hockey stick curve is accurate – click to visit
  • (20) EV Cars Indeed Emit Less Carbon Pollution – click to visit
  • (21) Eating local is not necessarily ecological – click to visit
  • (22) Many Popular Actions for the Environment Are Useless – click to visit
  • (23) 10 Times more people died from natural disasters a hundred years ago – click to visit
  • (24) By 2018 the emissions of ozone-depleting gases had fallen by 99.7% – click to visit
  • (25) The United States and Europe are minor contributors to the plastic waste problem – click to visit
  • (26) Developed nations has successfully reduced carbon emissions since 1990’s – click to visit
  • (27) The US is the largest cumulative emitter of carbon – click to visit
  • (28) There are many environmental success stories – click to visit
  • (29) Human behavior initiating a sixth extinction – click to visit
  • (30) Sulphur dioxide pollution has fallen by 95% in the US since the 1970’s – click to visit
  • (31) Entropy Always Increasing Does Not Contradict Evolution – click to visit
  • (32) Early homo sapiens lived at the same time as many other human species – click to visit
  • (33) Evidence for evolution is strong and evidence against it is weak – click to visit
  • (34) We know something about the evolution of whales – click to visit
  • (35) Evolution is a fact – click to visit
  • (36) Modern farming techniques have greatly increased cereal yield per acre – click to visit
  • (37) Animal Biomass has increased Wild Animal Biomass has decreased – click to visit
  • (38) Industrial Farming has condemned billions of animals to brutal and often short lives – click to visit
  • (39) You Choose Before You Know You Do – click to visit
  • (40) GPS uses relativity for accuracy – click to visit
  • (41) An account impersonating you on Facebook does not mean you have been hacked – click to visit
  • (42) Animals display compassion – click to visit
  • (43) We know that homeopathy does not work – click to visit
  • (44) Astrology is not science and lack predictive power – click to visit
  • (45) Vaccines do not cause autism – click to visit
  • (46) Smallpox killed 300 million people in the 20th Century But No One Now – click to visit
  • (47) The Average Lifespan More Than Doubled Since 1800 – click to visit
  • (48) The Butterfly effect – click to visit
  • (49) The Surprising Monty Hall Problem – click to visit
  • (50) The Surprising Double slit experiment – click to visit

I have to admit I don’t have a lot of followers yet on my new blog so feel free to follow. I will divide my time and posts equally between the two blogs, which means that my Leonberger blog will have about half as many posts as usual. I will place book reviews for Leonberger books, poetry, and fiction on my Leonberger blog and anything (fiction and non-fiction) that touches interesting facts on my superfactful blog. I am open to any suggestions for further improvements.

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Author: thomasstigwikman

My name is Thomas Wikman. I am a software/robotics engineer with a background in physics. I am currently retired. I took early retirement. I am a dog lover, and especially a Leonberger lover, a home brewer, craft beer enthusiast, I’m learning French, and I am an avid reader. I live in Dallas, Texas, but I am originally from Sweden. I am married to Claudia, and we have three children. I have two blogs. The first feature the crazy adventures of our Leonberger Le Bronco von der Löwenhöhle as well as information on Leonbergers. The second blog, superfactful, feature information and facts I think are very interesting. With this blog I would like to create a list of facts that are accepted as true among the experts of the field and yet disputed amongst the public or highly surprising. These facts are special and in lieu of a better word I call them super-facts.

40 thoughts on “Updates to my new Superfactful Blog”

    1. Wow that is interesting. Your Dawn of Humanity Trilogy and the Crossroads Trilogy and your upcoming Savage Land Trilogy could be said to scientific thrillers, but I assume that is not what you mean. This was from 2014 it looks like. I have to admit I am curious.

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      1. My military thrillers all involved science–like how to hide a submarine in plain sight, that sort. It’s an abiding interest of mine. I have another book 2/3s done, but am completely distracted with my love of early man. Some day I’ll get back to it.

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  7. Thanks for the update. I haven’t been able to visit your other blog recently but hope to soon. I’m not very good at science related stuff but I do find it interesting and open to learning.

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      1. It may be because your profile is connected to your Leonberger blog? It may help to get traffic to your other blog if people are able to go to it through your username.
        You’re very welcome.

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  9. Chaplin: “We know how the split blog thing works! Our blog started out as one or two mentions of Dennis on Dada’s other blog where he used to talk about his books and stuff, and before long Dennis became super popular and got his own blog and Dada only posted about his stuff like once a week!”

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  10. Wishing you success with your second blog Thomas. I followed it this week (sorry for the delay) and have read a few posts, it’s clear how much work you’ve put into it. Just keep on truckin’ the numbers will come. I’m not sure if you are doing SEO with your posts but that makes a massive difference, especially with organic search engine traffic. After 6 years of Leighton Travels I am finally getting really good organic traffic while o be honest WordPress currently makes up something like 7% of my overall monthly numbers. Then again, something like 90% of comments come purely from WordPress. In any case I’m a firm believer that passion, patience and consistency will always result in audience growth.

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    1. Thank you so much for your advice and encouragement Leighton. After two years most of the references to my Leonberger blog comes from the google search engine on the days when I did not post anything. On the my new blog 0% of my references come from the google search engine whether I posted something or not. However, it kind of was that way in beginning of the Leonberger blog too. I have not done any SEO stuff. I have to learn about that and do something about that.

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  11. You’ve already done 50 Super-fact posts? OMG. I’m so far behind, Thomas. And when reading through your topics, I see so many I’m interested in. I love learning and with all the misinformation swirling around us, it’s great to get the real scoop. You’re doing us all a supreme service. I guess I’ll just start at the beginning of your list and start tackling them. 🙂

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    1. Thank you so much for your very kind words Diane. Sorry I explained badly. I’ve only done 13, but I showed my plan for the 50 first ones. I have actually listed more than 150 for myself, but I’ve made a plan with 50. I think I might be done with the first 50 around the end of the year. The next one up is “the vastness of space and the beginning of infinity” but I have not done it yet.

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