I learned something today

I've gotten enough better that I've started learning things that take more than a day, so here is the broken physicist guide to YouT...

Today I learned that if you put a shell in an area that has lots of hermits crabs that is a little big for most of the locals, they will lin...

Today I learned that the EI grapevine is alive and well. I sent an email mentioning another EI's trip to a rehab facility (aka nursing h...

Today I learned from friends that you're supposed to wear cushy shoes if you stand up a lot because otherwise you get varicose veins. Th...

You know that thing where you go to the eye doctor so you can get prescription sunglasses for mountain biking, but you wear a respirator to ...

You know how I always used to start with "today I learned?" Some things take several months to learn, and it's one of those to...

Today I'm recording where to find information on smoke because there are a bunch of wildfires screwing up the air quality. I can go out ...

If you have a preexisting condition, your health insurance company may have decided to send you a doctor or nurse practitioner to make sure ...

Three days ago I learned how come a beeline is called a beeline. When you're on the end of one, it's like being shot with a bullet t...

I didn't want to jinx it by saying anything earlier, but I tolerate laundry detergent now. Not anything as complicated as liquid or thos...

Today I learned that if you unintentionally neglect your water softener by not cleaning the resin for, like, ten years, when you finally get...

I have another laundry contaminant, but after that last one, this one is just a hassle as opposed to a massive difficulty, so I'm not ev...

Yesterday I learned that the local bike coop, BICAS , where you can rent bike tools, has a mosquito problem when they aren't running the...

Recently I sort of learned to make a cricket trap from a fairly standard wikihow, and by "fairly standard," I mean it had a massiv...

Today I learned that people at Oak Ridge have figured out how to convert CO 2 to ethanol , and it was easier than they expected. Burning th...

I got a green envelope from the county in the mail! I get to vote for President, and I can do it right now! Hang on.... Ok, I forgot about...

In a full and careful study of anecdotal evidence on the internet and in discussion with a bunch of mountain bikers, I learned that garlic o...

Today I went to the doctor and learned that 65% of pesticide used in the US goes on cotton. Pima cotton, which accounts for one-sixth of US ...

Today I learned that the UV highs in the summer in Darwin , Australia top out around 14 on the UV Index (Sydney was more like 13). In Phoeni...

Today I learned that the piano arrangement of "The Gambler" I learned in high school is still stuck in my fingers, even though I h...

Today I sort of learned to darn a sock, in that it didn't look that complicated, I didn't do any research at all, and that sock is g...

Yesterday I learned that both my washing machines were contaminated, which is ironic since one is specifically for decontaminating things. I...

Today I may have learned how to get rid of the unremovable laundry contaminant. I got it into two small quilts I rely on, and my previous me...

Today I learned that you can, indeed, put coconut oil in your hair, and the sky won't fall immediately. I'll let you know how this e...

Today I learned that " Afternoon Delight " is grocery-store approved shopping music, which made my husband laugh all the way throu...

Today I learned by clicking through a bunch of things that shrimp have such rudimentary nervous systems that people aren't sure whether ...

I haven't learned anything today except that the landscaper the neighbors recommended could come over today and clean up my yard. I coul...

Minimalist/barefoot running shoes have been disappearing from the stores in favor of well-padded zero-drop shoes. I'm pretty sure that...

Recently I learned that if you take a picture of your husband on top of Picacho Peak, you can get bugs in the picture that, despite being ab...

Today I learned that I don't like switching from Linux to a Mac. Because there are more bored engineers in the family than just me (some...