What did you learn today?

[Jay-qu]

You learn something new everyday.

 

I heard those words at a very young age from my father, not fully understanding it I took it as a challenge!

 

"I do not think much of a man who is no wiser today then he was yesterday"

-Abraham Lincoln

 

 

So what have you learned today?

[Queso]

Today I learned about the sun rise

[Darnok]

that when you use your muscles to move you finger into your palm (ie index finger), you cannot move the end of your finger.

creds - anatomy for begginers

[Mercedes Benzene]

I learned that skin stains from potassium permanganate can be lessened by "washing" with isopropanol.

[Jay-qu]

Today I learnt more life lessons than science ones, about how people react to situations, how they play mind games with others (and themselves) plus various other aspects of our weird species that I contemplated at length.

 

Also I learnt that the story of drunken elephants is naught but a myth..

[InfiniteNow]

That kind people are beautiful.

[Mercedes Benzene]

About 15 minutes ago, I learned that you shouldn't argue with car dealers.

[SolarFreak]

I learned about base 60 sexigesimal that the babylons used.

Its easy to use your hands for base 60

on one hand you use your 4 fingers they are devided into 3 sections

gives you 12 on the other hand you have 4 fingers and at thumb 12 X 5 is 60

 

and 60 is the 1st number you can devide by 1,2,3,4,5 the 4 fingers and thumb

 

also read about how they figured out

 

60 sec

60 min

24 hours in a day 12 day time 12 night time you have 2 hands with 12 on each.

12 months

4000 years ago they built clocks long before europe

 

also how navigation is based off base 60 say 1h 34m 22s

1h 34/60 22/3600

 

http://educ.queensu.ca/~fmc/april2002/Babylon.htm

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_mathematics

 

anyway I ending up on the base 60 tangent by learning more about parabolics. I wanted to find out who and when the math for parabolics was started. I saw some babylon clay tables from 4000 years ago with geomerty on them

[Jay-qu]

I learned that cars slide, easy.. :Glasses: and very easy in the wet, and even more easily in the wet on the grass! :doh:

[Jay-qu]

Well it was yesterday now.. but I learnt how to input and output to files in Java :)

[TheFaithfulStone]

I learned that guacamole and warm beer are a poor combination.

 

I learned that you can't take Gatorade on an airplane because it might be a bomb.

 

I learned that everyone has something intelligent to say, somewhere, sometime.

 

TFS

[Tormod]

I learnt that if it's a low traffic week, the one day you choose to drive to work everyone else makes the same decision.

[Jay-qu]

I saw (not sure if I can say I learnt) some possible Higgs Boson Feynmann diagrams..

[William Honey]

I learned that reading affirmations every morning can start your day toward success.

Example: I can be a success * I will be a success * I am moving toward success

[Karnuvap]

I learnt that Richard Feynman put it this way. Instead of "What did you learn at school today?" parents should ask:

 

"What did you ask at school today?"

[nkt]

I learned that the £500+ tool I have for a certain task is not yet as good as it will be once I've modified it some more. And I need more practise with it.

[Mercedes Benzene]

I learned that pulling scotch tape in a vacuum releases X-rays!

Scotch tape's surprising power: X-rays - CNN.com