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March 8 – A Woman’s Work
Today’s factismal: It is International Women’s Day! Today is International Women’s Day, when we celebrate all of the things that women have brought into the world (one of which is you). And in honor of...
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March 20 – Spring Forward
Today’s factismal: Today is the first day of Spring, the twentieth day of Spring, and the forty-ninth day of Spring. Right now, you are probably scratching your head, wondering if I’ve lost my mind....
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April 4 – Book ‘Em
Today’s factismal: The Library of Congress is the world’s largest public library with over 160 million different things in its catalog. There is something special about walking into a library. The...
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April 11 – Doctor, doctor!
Today’s Factismal: James Parkinson, the doctor who first described the disease that bears his name, was born 261 years ago today. One of the highest honors in medicine is having a disease named after...
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April 22 – Weathering The Climate
Today’s factismal: A 90 day weather forecast is useless but a 90 year climate forecast is useful. If you’ve paid any attention to the fuss over climate change, then you know that one of the common...
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April 25 – Ten For The Peng-Win!
Today’s Factismal: Today is World Penguin Day. If you are a fan of Bloom County then you know that today is opus’ favorite day of the whole year: World Penguin Day! But, as Opus could tell you,...
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May 10 – Make Yourself Herd
Today’s factismal: The official name for the USA’s National Mammal is Bison bison bison. As of May 9, it is official: The United States of America has a National Mammal. And what a mammal it is! An...
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May 12 – I Feel For You
Today’s Factismal: Nearly ten million people in the US suffer from fibromyalgia. Imagine that your skin is wrapped in razor-sharp barbed wire coated in acid, so that the slightest pressure causes you...
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May 16 – Glass Cutter
Today’s factismal: The maser was invented in 1953. The optical maser was invented in 1960. It is hard to think of an invention with as many uses as the optical maser in today’s world. We use optical...
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May 17th – Baby I’m a Star
Today’s factismal: It is National Telecommunication Day. Go call your mother! Today is National Telecommunication Day, celebrating 58 years of communicating with satellites. Amazingly enough, we are...
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May 30 – Tongue Tied
One of the best things about science is how it corrects mistakes. And one of the worst things about popular culture is how it perpetuates them. Today, Daniel, Peter, and Mary discover the truth behind...
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June 4 – Up In The Air
Today’s Factismal: Humans put out 135 times the amount of CO2 of all the volcanoes on Earth combined. Today is Clean Air Day, so here are five fast facts about air pollution: 1 The ozone layer has...
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June 6 – Down To The Levee
Today’s Factismal: Tropical Storm Allison did $5,500,000,000 in damage, making it the costliest tropical storm in US history. It is hurricane season again, and that means that a small disturbance over...
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June 8 – Deep Blue
Today’s factismal: It is World Oceans Day – go hug a whale! Today is World Oceans Day, an international celebration of all things briny. And as my part of the celebration, I present ten fast facts...
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June 20 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Today’s factismal: Today is the first day of Summer, the twentieth day of Summer, and the middle of Summer. Right now, you are probably seeing lots of posts complaining that today is only the first day...
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July 13 – Healthy As An Ox
Today’s factismal: National Men’s Health Week starts today. Go find a man and help him get healthy! Odds are, you know a man. And if you know a man, odds are that you know a man who is reluctant to...
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September 29 – Hearty Recommendation
Today’s factismal: Your heart will beat nearly three billion times during your life. Welcome to World Heart Day! Today, we celebrate all things cardiac-related, from the fact that we all got ’em to the...
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October 23 – We Are All Starstuff
Today’s factismal: There are about as many atoms in 5 1/2 ounces of oxygen as there are stars in the universe. If you had been a chemist in the 1800s, you would have had a real problem. You knew for a...
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October 25 – Sheer Nonsense
Today’s factismal: The first nylon stockings went on sale in 1939. Back in 1939, women had a big problem: they wanted to wear silk stockings but they couldn’t afford them. The price of a typical pair...
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October 31 – Vampire Function
Math is often called the language of science. And the beautiful thing about that language is that it says the same thing whether you are working in chemistry or biology. Peter and Daniel will learn...
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