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.
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.
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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