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FACT: aluminium is infinitely recyclable

By Ryan | Published: September 13, 2009

It’ may be a blasphemous thing to say, but I’m generally not gung-ho about recycling. Sure, all the cool kids were in the grade five “Earth Club”, but after that I started to feel like it was more hype than truth. Paper biodegrades and, with properly managed forests, is a renewable resource. Plastic doesn’t recycle [...]

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FACT: the magnetic north pole is moving towards Russia

By Ryan | Published: September 6, 2009

Will Santa Claus change his name to Sergei Klaus? It seems inevitable as the magnetic north pole is moving steadily and very quickly north. Currently it’s located inside Canada, but within a couple decades it may be firmly in Russian territory. A government conspiracy? Nope… just science. The magnetic field is created and influenced by [...]

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FACT: the colours of a sunset are caused by dust

By Ryan | Published: August 17, 2009

Well here I go, taking something that’s all purdy and majestic and reducing it to plain old math and facts. The sunset, with all it’s glorious splendour, is caused by less than splendourous dust. Plain old dust hanging around the air. It’s the way that the particles cause the radiating light to scatter, as explained [...]

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FACT: as a rough estimate, an average cloud weighs 4 million kilograms

By Ryan | Published: August 12, 2009

This may well be the fluffiest fact I’ve ever published, since there is no definitive answer. Clouds can vary widely in size, shape, and density but this answer is straight from the mouth of a genuine scientist, so there you go. (note: that should be read as ‘gen-yoooo-ine scientist‘ for proper effect) However, it would [...]

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FACT: all the gold on earth came from outer space

By Ryan | Published: August 4, 2009

The golden rule: he who has the gold, makes the rules… which means we should prepare to bow down to our alien overlords with da’ bling. Gold does not naturally occur anywhere here on earth. It arrived here as the planet was formed from a cloud of space dust. The gold itself having been forged [...]

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