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Icebergs make powerful metaphors because much of what matters is hidden.
Despite knowing the maths, it’s still genuinely surprising and sometimes hard to believe that 90% of an iceberg is beneath the surface.
Icebergs are, therefore, a super metaphor for when...
Have you ever found something rather wonderful about a walk in a strong wind? You might appreciate the Dutch concept of Uitwaaien.
What does “uitwaaien” mean?Uitwaaien is a Dutch word meaning to go out into the wind, often for a walk or bike ride, to clear your head and refresh your mind.
Uitwaaien combines two words: uit, meaning out, and wa...
The genius of coffee: it’s the solution to a problem of its own making.
Too much coffee leads to poor sleep, which leads to waking up tired, which leads to craving that glorious coffee fix to make the tired go away. An ingenious self-reinforcing cycle.
Few other substances or systems seem to manage the elegance and simplicity of this cycle. Imagine if wine cured t...
Perhaps you've heard of a Pyrrhic victory: a victory so costly that it feels almost like a defeat.
The name comes from the tale of King Pyrrhus of Epirus in 279 BCE. On defeating the Romans, yet seeing the loss of so many of his best warriors, he declared, "If we are v...
Volcanoes are big, so eruptions are big. But how big? And how would you compare one eruption with another? Well, like the Richter Scale for earthquakes, there’s a scale for eruptions. It’s called the Volcanic Explosivity Index.
What Is the Volcanic Explosivity Index?The Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) ranges from 0 to 8. It covers everything from a shoot of ash with a ...