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50% of adults in North America will make a New Year's resolution. The top two resolutions are behavioral commitments related to improving one's health namely to cease smoking and decrease one's consumption of alcohol.

Can people see as well as owls?

Daily Trivia / July 23, 2026

We think we cannot see at night. But given enough time to adjust, the human eye can, for a time, see almost as well as an owl's. Ultimately, as the amount of light decreases, an owl detects shapes after a human no longer ...Read More

Have other, space elevator-like ideas have been proposed?

Daily Trivia / July 23, 2026

There are two related concepts worth mentioning: A space fountain would use pellets fired up from the ground by a mass driver, the pellets traveling through the center of a tower. These pellets would impart their kinetic ...Read More

What did Mr. Buckley think of the Fab Four?

Daily Trivia / July 23, 2026

In the early 1960s, opinionist William F. Buckley, Jr. wrote the following about the Fab Four: "The Beatles are not merely awful, I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful... They ...Read More