You can make toast with an iron, but you can't iron with a toaster.

 

SURVEY:

WHICH OF THESE SHORT CLIPS DO YOU PREFER?

 

 

 Its curious to think of clouds as having mass and weight when watching them float gracefully, but Peggy LeMone, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, did the numbers. "The water in the little cloud weighs about 550 tons," she calculates. "Or if you want to convert it to something that might be a little more meaningful … think of elephants."

 

I am redirecting you to  THIS ITEM found on maybelle blog. This is one of the most profound historical contrasts I have read yet.

 

yet more bread and circus: (Bread and circuses is a derogatory phrase which can describe either government policies to pacify the citizenry, or the shallow, decadent desires of that same citizenry. In both cases, it refers to low-cost, low-quality, high-availability food and entertainment, and to the exclusion of things which the speaker considers more important, such as art, public works projects, democracy, or human rights.)