Breathe Out as Hard as You Can
Do it now. Force everything out, then force a bit more, then hold it. There is still air in there, and there is…
Nothing in There Is Looking at the Bread
This is the fact that reorganises everything else. A domestic toaster contains no sensor pointed at the toast, no measurement of its…
There Is No Lens, and There Cannot Be
Every camera works by bending light. A lens collects rays arriving from a point on an object and bends them back together…
The Stripe Was a Cassette Tape
The brown band on the back of the old cards was magnetic tape, in the same sense that a cassette was magnetic tape, and…
Named after the thing it barely does, and placed under the window deliberately. Here are sixteen.
1. The Name Is Wrong
Only a minority of the heat leaving a typical…
Source: Wikipedia
Nobody was there by choice, and everybody behaved beautifully. Here are twelve.
1. You Were There Because You Had To Be
Source: Wikipedia
Nobody went for pleasure. Either the house…