Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Randomness - 4/23/2014

Random thoughts.

There was or is a largest individual bird at some point in history. A smallest one, too.

The most popular song in the world has still only been played/performed a finite number of times. This number could be reasonably estimated to within an order of magnitude.

The most beneficial mutation a current organism can undergo is to become useful to humankind in some way. Tasting good is one of the best, if the species can be domesticated.

Alternately, some species have done extremely well by becoming an undesirable pest to humankind, and using humanity as a form of accelerated natural selection to breed stronger and stronger generations very quickly. Rats and cockroaches being the ultimate examples.

Reality is often more surreal than anything we can come up with. Just read any text on quantum physics for an endless supply of examples.

The word 'draw' means to disperse a substance in order to create an image or to extend a substance and focus it into a cylinder (such as wire). It can also mean to pull fluid from a reservoir.

Typing is a word indicating a person striking keys on a keyboard. However, it descends from the concept of physical blocks of metal referred to as 'type' which were arranged on a press in order to print documents.

There is no known evolutionary reason why humans should find music so compelling, and yet we do.

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