A growing body of scientific studies have examined the implications of finger-length ratios, But until recently up to 50% of humanoid distal appendages may have been largely overlooked – for what of toe-length ratios? Progress towards rectifying this digital imbalance has been made with a recent study from the Department of Psychology, Penn State University, […]
Tag: length
Wait, do tell: Why your line is slow
Are you waiting in a line at a store right how, fuming? Bill Hammack gives about as clear an explanation as possible for why your line probably moves slower than a line next to you: (Thanks to Gizmodo and Kristine Danowski for bringing this to our attention.)
Judge Acquilino’s looooooong sentence
Is this the record-holder for most-words-in-a-single-sentence written by a judge in a court document? Written by Senior Judge Thomas J. Aquilino of the US Court of International Trade in a statement handed down on March 31, 2010, the sentence is approximately 540 words long. Here it is: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal […]
How long isn’t the Rhine river?
Something doesn’t add up, as they say, with the Rhine River. Earth Times reports: Reports of Rhine’s length exaggerated and erroneous, academic finds Cologne, Germany – Most of the world’s encyclopaedias and textbooks are misstating the length of Europe’s Rhine river after somebody accidentally added 90 kilometres about half a century ago, an observant academic […]