Posted by Irene Filed in Quickthoughts

The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth is -89.4°C (-129°F), at Vostok on Antarctica on July 21, 1983.

Posted by mike d. Filed in Quickthoughts

Check out this fantastic guide to some beautiful and rare cloud formations.

Posted by bdp Filed in Work

I work at a small company, and we have a few standing arguments that will never be resolved and will likely continue forever. I’d like to know if this is normal.

Do any of you have something similar? Leave your stories in the comments.

I’ll share a few of our standing arguments:

  • In a one-on-one fight to the death between a coworker of ours and a female cow who would win? (no tools, weapons, sticks, rocks may be used)
  • What is a sport, what is a game. Is a given activity a sport or a game or a contest.
  • Are fish closer to vegetables than animals? (food-wise, i.e. are the advanced enough to feel pain or is it morally equivalent to eating celery)
  • The Monty Hall problem.

There are so many more, and none of them are more useful (or resolvable) than those.