Or they can eat the sand-which-is there.

I totally agree with you. And he completely left out the factor of where the shopping cart return sites are located.

The way I learned to do the trick was to place a tiny amount of salt on the table, place the egg on the salt (perhaps crush a few large grains), then blow away the visible salt around the edge of the egg.

Blogworthy. (thank you) :-)

Contains the classic error of saying that air at high altitude contains "half as much oxygen." The air all the way out to the stratosphere always contains 20.9% oxygen; the difference is that the pressure is half of what it is at sea level.

I offer for your consideration this 17,500-word (53-page long) sentence created by Gabriel Garcia Marquez:
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2014/04/one-sentence.html
I didn't consider it enjoyable to read, but it was grammatically correct.

We don't need reminders that the American political system is fundamentally dysfunctional; we see evidence of that every day in real life.

“When you apply cold to a surface—for example, your skin—it causes more blood to flow to the area,” he said.
I'd like to see some documentation for this claim. Sounds like bullshit.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17929604

This is definitely a thing you wouldn't know... :-)

The bullion value of silver is about $15 per ounce, so for $340 the "investor" receives $50 in silver in what the Mint describes as a "fun-filled design", presented in a "beauty box" with a numbered certificate, in a gesture described as a "patriotic first" designed to "celebrate Canada" with a "coin" shaped like a .... coelacanth?
For extra fun, pair this up with one of the MInt's glow-in-the-dark coins... perhaps the one that glows with the Bat signal...

Apparently it's not meant for eating cereal. It's meant for eating pi.

Pushing the limits of what might be defined as "Neato..."

I've been doing this for years. Not "Mariekondo-ing," but "dostadning" (Swedish "death-cleaning"). I'm not even close yet to achieving the "tidy" state, but I can affirm that great pleasure can be derived even from the early stages of finally getting rid of accumulated things (books, records, videos, clothes, souvenirs, memorabilia). I also found that using "linkdumps" helped me trim down thousands of accumulated bookmarked websites. There is a real joy to be had from letting go of things.