fallaciousBasis

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  • I was watching who wants to be a millionaire and it was the celebrity version. I don’t recall which celebrities were sitting in the chair but I recall the question and the answer.

    The question was: supreme court justices all shake hands with each other before they have a session or something, so how many times are hands shaken total among all judges?

    Really simple answer if you know your math(and how many justices there are), which they ultimately asked the audience and I kind of figured ‘not a lot’ are going to get it right, but over 70 percent did. I was surprised.

    Maybe one of the celebrities was Helen Hunt? I’m not going to spoil the answer any further!















  • fallaciousBasistoscienceWhy aren't Americans living longer?
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    19 hours ago

    Healthy foods (whole grains, legumes, plants and vegetables, for instance) are the cheapest foods available, pound for pound.

    Bags of beans, lentils, rice? Come on…

    You can usually buy several pound bags of apples for 2-3 bucks. Bananas are always cheap. And on and on and on.

    You know what’s even cheaper? Soil and seed. Life’s a garden, dig it. So many videos on the whatever you watch. Video showing you what you can do with produce scraps that will grow You More produce from those scraps, for instance… You can chop off the head on lettuce and put the little puck at the base in water and it’ll start growing more leaves. Cuttings are a great way to propagate plants. Put in water until it roots then plant them.

    When fresh produce gets expensive (out of season stuff) there’s frozen and canned. But growing your own is as close to free as food gets and probably the most healthy of all.