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The Ocean: Earth’s Oxygen Factory While rainforests are vital, it’s the ocean that produces over half of the world’s oxygen. Marine plants like plankton and algae are the unsung heroes of our breathable air. Stomach Acid vs. Metal The human stomach contains acid potent enough to dissolve razor blades. Its pH level ranges from 1 to 3, showcasing its incredible strength. Bananas: The Radioactive Fruit Bananas contain potassium, and since potassium decays, that makes the yellow fruit slightly radioactive. But don’t worry—you’d need to eat ten million bananas in one sitting to die of banana-induced radiation poisoning. Animals with Internal GPS Some animals, like sea turtles and salmon, have the ability to sense the Earth’s magnetic field and use this sense for navigation. Laughing Rats Rats have the ability to “laugh” when tickled. Earth’s Magnetic Shield The Earth’s inner core, a sphere of solid iron, generates electrical currents due to temperature and density variations. Combined with the planet’s spin, this creates a magnetic field that protects us from harmful solar radiation. The Moon’s Perfect Fit The Sun is 400 times larger than the Moon, but also 400 times as far away, making both objects appear to be the same size in our sky. The Ocean’s Depths Remain a Mystery Despite advances in technology, more than 80% of the Earth’s oceans remain unexplored and unmapped, holding mysteries yet to be discovered.
What good democracy, indeed, When power pins the unelected hand?
So You Want To Be A Writer if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it. if you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen or hunched over your typewriter searching for words, don’t do it. if you’re doing it for money or fame, don’t do it. if you’re doing it because you want women in your bed, don’t do it. if you have to sit there and rewrite it again and again, don’t do it. if it’s hard work just thinking about doing it, don’t do it. if you’re trying to write like somebody else, forget about it. if you have to wait for it to roar out of you, then wait patiently. if it never does roar out of you, do something else.
if you first have to read it to your wife or your girlfriend or your boyfriend or your parents or to anybody at all, you’re not ready.
don’t be like so many writers, don’t be like so many thousands of people who call themselves writers, don’t be dull and boring and pretentious, don’t be consumed with self- love. the libraries of the world have yawned themselves to sleep over your kind. don’t add to that. don’t do it. unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don’t do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don’t do it.
when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you.
