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The Byzantine Empire broke China’s silk monopoly when two monks smuggled silkworm eggs in hollow bamboo walking sticks.Michael Stevens on The Rest Is Science
Around 2013, more than half of surveyed people believed cloud data literally floated inside clouds in the sky.Michael Stevens on The Rest Is Science
At any moment, about 5.4 quadrillion raindrops are actively falling toward Earth.Michael Stevens on The Rest Is Science
Clouds in the sky contain roughly 238 septillion water droplets, exceeding the digital cloud’s estimated 190 sextillion bits of information.Michael Stevens on The Rest Is Science
Clouds stay aloft as tiny water droplets, then become rain when those droplets merge and grow heavy.Michael Stevens on The Rest Is Science
Clouds contain about 1,000 cubic kilometers of liquid water on average, though the amount changes seasonally.Michael Stevens on The Rest Is Science
Otto Theodor Benfey’s periodic snail arranges elements in an outward spiral, fitting lanthanides and actinides into one table.Michael Stevens on The Rest Is Science
The periodic snail adds a branch for superactinides, elements beyond those currently found or manufactured but theoretically expected to exist.Michael Stevens on The Rest Is Science
The periodic table repeats chemical behavior at regular intervals. Potassium and rubidium act alike from matching positions.Michael Stevens on The Rest Is Science
A Facebook data center once formed an actual indoor cloud when humidity, air conditioning, and heat interacted.Michael Stevens on The Rest Is Science
Even allowing errors of tenfold or several orders of magnitude, clouds still contain more water drops than cloud data has bits.Hannah Fry on The Rest Is Science
A result with roughly a 10.9% chance is unusual, not extraordinary. Across ten sites, it should happen at least once.Hannah Fry on The Rest Is Science
A suspected blue-eyed bricklayer pattern may be confirmation bias: one noticed pattern becomes every remembered example.