Tag: science humor

Why Americans Measure in Football Fields & Likely Always Will

Americans will measure distance in anything except the metric system—school buses, blue whales, and of course football fields. But that odd habit might reveal something deeper about how human brains actually understand scale.

Don't Freeze Your Family—Physics PROVES Why We Writers Need to Lighten UP

This is empirical “proof” that yes, we parents were correct. Toddlers do drain energy. This also “proves” that children, as they get bigger, drain even MORE energy. Think how fast a 98 oz. margarita would chill your tamales (being “Tamale Mom” and “Tamale Dad”) and this explains why teenagers drain energy faster…unless the 98 oz margarita, um teenager wants to date or wear too much makeup and that will temporarily heat the tamales, er parents.