Murray Bourne

"Intellect is not wisdom." [Thomas Sowell]

YouTube video by Peacock All extremely simple and easy to remember #SNL #NateBargatze #Shorts

The reason the US doesn't use the metric system youtube.com/shorts/ukzJW...

Your chance of a heart attack is 3 times higher in the morning than the rest of the day. http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1825044,00.html

"When I get a little money, I buy books and if any is left, I buy food and clothes." [Erasmus, 16th century Dutch]

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." [Albert Einstein]

"The best decoration in the world is a room full of books." [Billy Baldwin]

"Memories are not fixed ... but transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection." [Oliver Sacks]

"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence." [Samuel Johnson]

Today at 6:02 AM is the start of Mole Day (named after Avogadro's Number, 6.02 * 10^23). https://www.moleday.org/

Today is Mole Day, commemorating Avogadro's Number (6.02 x 10^23). https://www.moleday.org/

Q: What is the number of molecules in a mole of guacamole? Ans: Avocado's number.

"The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos." [Stephen Jay Gould]

"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of an eye, the more light you shed upon it, the more it contracts." [attr. to Oliver Wendell Holmes]

"Mathematicians aren't people who find maths easy; they're people who enjoy how hard it is." [Matt Parker @standupmaths, math advocate and comedian]

"That we have written an equation does not remove from the flow of fluids its charm or mystery or its surprise." [Richard Feynman, physicist]

Preventable diseases: Obesity causes 274,000 cancer deaths per year worldwide.

"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things." [Russell Baker]

"Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in yourself." [Felix Adler]

"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." [attr. to Hypatia, 5th century astronomer, mathematician and Alexandrian educator]

"In our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is to be educated." [Edith Hamilton]

Very few governments (none?) live by this: The Seventh Generation Principle is based on an ancient Iroquois philosophy that the decisions we make today should result in a sustainable world seven generations into the future.

"No amount of belief makes something a fact." [James Randi]

Happy birthday to Martin Gardner, mathematics and science writer. (b. 21 Oct 1914, d. 2010)

"The perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate." [Luc de Clapiers, 18th century French writer]

"We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on." [Richard Feynman]

Google Trends data for term "football" in Australia https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=football&geo=AU

"Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. But those of us who are not that tall have to choose!" [Richard Feynman, physicist]

"Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you." [Wendell Berry, farmer and author]

This crosswind landing app (addition of vectors) works on phones and tablets, too: https://www.intmath.com/vectors/4-adding-vectors-2-dimensions.php

"A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children." [John James Audubon]