Fact O' The Day

[Krandall]

"Leonardo da Vinci spent 12 years painting the Mona Lisa's lips."

[Krandall]

"The first industrial robot went to work at GM in 1961."


Named Unimate, General Motors put it to work in the spring of 1961 without fanfare -- not because they were worried about an uproar over it one day taking the jobs away from so many people, but because they were concerned that it wouldn't work out.

It did, of course, and today robotics is a multibillion-dollar worldwide industry. The original Unimate is at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C.

[Krandall]

"Lifting free weights helps exercise parts of your brain."


Proprioception, the sense of where your body is in space, is regulated by your whole nervous system and relies on the information your body sends through your spinal cord and to your brain. It's also further developed with practice, which is why patients whose coordination has been impaired by illness often train to get their balance back (by balancing blindfolded, for example). Working with free weights helps develop your proprioception because of the balance involved; using a machine doesn't offer the same benefits.

[Krandall]

"40% of all people who come to a party at your house snoop in your medicine cabinet."

[Peelz]

"40% of all people who come to a party at your house snoop in your medicine cabinet."

they gonna get a surprise at my house! 

[dragonz]

"40% of all people who come to a party at your house snoop in your medicine cabinet."

they gonna get a surprise at my house! 

I think there's a loaded mouse-trap in mine

[Hefe]

would be funny as hell to put a sign in there that says "I see you!" or GTFOMMC!

[Krandall]

"The longest escalator in the world is in St. Petersburg, Russia, with 729 steps."

[Krandall]

"In the early days of baseball, a fielder put a runner out by hitting him with the ball."

[Hefe]

that would be one way to make baseball watchable!

[Peelz]

that would be one way to make baseball watchable!

LOL 

[Krandall]

"Babies can understand basic elements of physics when they're as young as two months old."


A study in the journal WIREs Cognitive Science indicated that infants who are as young as two months old are intuitively able to understand basic physical concepts (e.g. gravity, and that an object hidden in a container will move when the container moves). By five months, they understand the difference between solid objects and non-solid substances (like sand or liquids). At six months, they can gauge values (if one sample is substantially larger than another) and at ten months, they can gauge physical quantities -- which cup holds more liquid, or which container holds more food (though again, only if the samples are large enough for there to be an appreciable difference).

[Peelz]

"Babies can understand basic elements of physics when they're as young as two months old."


A study in the journal WIREs Cognitive Science indicated that infants who are as young as two months old are intuitively able to understand basic physical concepts (e.g. gravity, and that an object hidden in a container will move when the container moves). By five months, they understand the difference between solid objects and non-solid substances (like sand or liquids). At six months, they can gauge values (if one sample is substantially larger than another) and at ten months, they can gauge physical quantities -- which cup holds more liquid, or which container holds more food (though again, only if the samples are large enough for there to be an appreciable difference).

nifty.... but it takes til like 18 months til they can spot an obstacle while walking... IE a step up, or a cliff....

little shits just keep walking...... pretty hilarious to watch. "step...step BAM!" face into carpet.

[Krandall]

"The words we say to others account for less than 10% of first impressions."


Naturalist Charles Darwin -- yes, that Darwin -- first launched the study of nonverbal communication when he published The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals in 1872. Today researchers believe that we make first impressions of people based on three factors: body language, vocal delivery, and the content of what we say.

Although statistics tend to vary a few percentage points here and there, what we say accounts for just 7% of that first impression, vocal delivery (tone, pacing, etc) accounts for 38%, while body language accounts for the rest -- a whopping 55%, something to remember when approaching a woman for the first time.

[Magz]

"Babies can understand basic elements of physics when they're as young as two months old."


A study in the journal WIREs Cognitive Science indicated that infants who are as young as two months old are intuitively able to understand basic physical concepts (e.g. gravity, and that an object hidden in a container will move when the container moves). By five months, they understand the difference between solid objects and non-solid substances (like sand or liquids). At six months, they can gauge values (if one sample is substantially larger than another) and at ten months, they can gauge physical quantities -- which cup holds more liquid, or which container holds more food (though again, only if the samples are large enough for there to be an appreciable difference).

nifty.... but it takes til like 18 months til they can spot an obstacle while walking... IE a step up, or a cliff....

little shits just keep walking...... pretty hilarious to watch. "step...step BAM!" face into carpet.

sounds like me after a couple beers.........