Table of Contents: My Science Flashcards

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Contents: Card 1 DR_One strange rock

  1. Asteroid collision Dinosaur extinction

My odds of being here; sperm and the egg

  1. ELE space debris
  2. The Sun is not our friend

400 MYA vertebrates came out of the water to dry land

  1. Aliens. More of the odds of being here.

No such thing as color!

  1. ELE Volcanos Lichen making land.
  2. Earth traveling through space 1.6 million miles each day.
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Contents: Card 2. Hominids

  1. Timeline for Hominid use of clothing, dwellings, etc.
  2. How did life on Earth start?
  3. Why did Hominids live in caves?
  4. Popular types of Hominids.
  5. How did Hominids get here?
  6. If we rewound the tape, we would not be here today.
  7. How did ice age change the world?
  8. Why do we walk upright?
  9. Why did Neanderthals perish?
  10. Rhino and octopus lineage millions of years.
  11. Notes on evolution and science. Magic of Reality
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Contents: Card 3: That’s Interesting

32 cards. Too numerous to list. Samples:

The tiny atom.

Solar energy transference.

There was never a first person.

Niagra Falls over 20,000 years old.

The Pork tape worm.

How many miles in a light year?

Gravity doesn’t pull on us, we simply fall through.

Why is time travel impossible?

How strong is the Sun’s gravity?

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Card 4: That’s interesting Deck #2.

  1. Oppenheimer Doc. report.
  2. Brain size vs intelligence.
  3. Car of the future.
  4. Replacing workers.
  5. Second law of Thermodynamics.
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Contents: Card 5. That’s interesting facts.

  1. Where animals live.
  2. IBM’s Watson reading speed.
  3. Family shoplifting
  4. Ghost stars.
  5. How fast is Earth traveling through the solar system?
  6. How far does the Sun travel in one year?
  7. Can you walk on the bottom of the ocean?
  8. Why Reindeer have antlers?
  9. What animals keeppets?
  10. Living alone is early death.
  11. Thousands of pedestrian deaths using phones.
  12. Spiders, 40,000 pounds of food eaten in arural acre.
  13. Grand Canyon was 6 miles high.
  14. Plastic in the ocean.
  15. The Egg, perfect invention.
  16. Chernobyl. Can’t live there for 20,000 years.
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Contents: Card 6. Rocks.

  1. Metamorphic, Igneous.
  2. What percent of rock has air?
  3. Rock recycles.
  4. Magma and lava.
  5. What are major areas of the Earth?
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Contents: Card 7: Bacteria on our bodies.

  1. A simple kiss will exchange 80 million bacteria.
  2. The Spartans DR.
  3. The man who jacked up Chicago by 8 feet.
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Card 8: Hominid timelines.

  1. From the Earth beginning through Primates, Biped Hominids, Glacers, Sapiens, modern Sapiens, last ice age. 15 dead people for every living person today on Earth.
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Card 9:
BR\_\_Bryson a brief history 1
Misc topics:
1. Human life span
2. Impossible to reach end of universe
3. A spaceship ride to nearest star
4. How big was the Manson Crater?
5. How wide the Yellowstone crater?
6. How much skin we shed daily
7. How much bacteria lives underground
8. When were dinosaurs discovered?
9. How the periodic table got its name
10 Helium named after a sun god
11. Why we sneeze
12 What does E=MC squared mean?
13. How many galaxies are estimated to exist
14. Your body atoms.  Where have they been before
15.  How long do atoms last?
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Card 10:
BR__Bryson a brief history 2
Misc topics:
1. Why were refrigerators in the 1920’s so dangerous?
2. How much dark matter is in our universe?
3. When were plate tectonics discovered?
4. So Earth is 4.6 Billion years old, why is the ocean floor only 175 million years old?
5. What is the longest mountain range on Earth?
6. How many tectonic plates are there?
7. Why is the Atlantic ocean going to be larger than the Pacific ocean?
8. When was the last supervolcano eruption on Earth?
9. Why the 60 mile gap in the mountains West of Yellowstone?
10. Why does underwater pressure crush you?

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Card 11: BODYWORKS

  1. Why do we have boogers?
  2. Our protein requirements
  3. Why we get tired.
  4. How many Americans smoke today?
  5. If you are 16, what age is your brain maturity?
  6. How is protein connected to our Sun?
  7. How many Obese people are there?
  8. Hay Fever
  9. Losing weight facts
  10. Understanding free radicals and antioxidants
  11. The U.S. lost 63,000 people to opioid overdoses
  12. Weight loss trick.
  13. How many genes in our body?
  14. How many codes in human DNA?
  15. Number of body functions each second
  16. How much meat humans eat per year.
  17. DNA fun facts
  18. Men are living long as women now
  19. DNA counted out
  20. Your body is NOT you!
  21. Your vision. The lost golf ball
  22. California Fire DNA identification
  23. Can we live forever?
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Card 12: BODYWORKS 2

  1. Pheromones
  2. Pheromones in insects
  3. Pheromone releasers
  4. Pheromone territorial
  5. Pheromone sexual attraction
  6. Olfactory processing
  7. Our ancient ancestors were smart as us
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Card 13: DR__Rise of the Animals

  1. Our earliest ancestors
  2. Reptiles and amphibians
  3. Eggs
  4. Birds evolved from Dinosaurs. Blk and White vision
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Card 14: DR__In the minds of plants

  1. Tannins
  2. Plant pheromones
  3. Plants sleep
  4. The amazing Gold Eagle
  5. The Alcon Blue Butterfly. Caterpillar eats for free for 2 full years because it fools the ants.
  6. SUPERBUG 60,000 Indian babies die each year from drug resistant bacteria.
  7. The secret weapon Airplane radar
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A fly’s wings beat 200 to 300 times per second! They have 360 degree vision. This is why they are hard to swat with your hand.

27,000 items in orbit around Earth. Mostly junk.

Giant blades on a wind turbine. Each blade weighs 36,000 pounds and turns 150 to 180 mph. They look like they are turning slow, but they are huge, giving the illusion they are going slow but they turn at the top speeds of a helicopter!

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Quotes:
“You have left the world of reality” Cuban Missile crisis
“Calibrating my risk” can use this in sizing up my golf shots.

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