Category Archives: Muddled Musings

To The Fully Lived Life, Regardless of Span

Chronicling Your Life Fully Lived — Gitchi Adventure Goods To the mayfly, king of morsels. Some lifetime FactSlaps:

plaguily 10 shortest living animals in the world

10 Domestic rabbits, 8-12 Years

9.Guinea pigs, 4 Years
8. Mosquitofish, 2 years

7. Chameleon, 1 Year chameleons

6. House mouse, 1 year mouse

5. Dragon Fly, 4 months dragonfly

4. Houseflies, 4 weeks housefly

3. Drone ants, 3 weeks

2. Gastrotrichs, 3 days

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1. Mayflies, 24 hours shortest living animals in the world

A Psalm of Life

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.

In the world’s broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!

Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act,— act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o’erhead!

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;

Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Never Trust an Atom; They Make Up Everything.

Creative Futuristic Digital Atom On Blue Background. Medicine ...

As we wait for science to save our hides (again), a FactSlap homage to the peer-reviewed art:

41 new species are discovered by science every single day.
Scientists finally concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes egg shells is only produced by hens.
“Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia” is the scientific term for brain freeze.
The average number of readers of any given published scientific paper is 0.6.
A new scientific method called ‘toxineering’ turns venoms into painkillers.
Scientists have developed a way of charging mobile phones using urine.
Scientists can turn peanut butter into diamonds.
Scientists have developed a microparticle filled with oxygen that can be injected into the blood stream, so we can live without breathing.
A bolt of lightning is 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun.