昨晚睡前看书选新的，决定把最近在 kindle store 买了但是几乎没打算看的几本消化一下，一时无法决定看哪本就去挨个看了评分选了最高的一本，结果是 #HowTo (Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems），津津有味地看起来之后觉得这大概是我看过最“并没有什么卵用但是好有意思啊”的书了哈哈哈哈哈。插图也好可爱
#Reading

毕竟，就算是”每个成年人都懂“的事，每天光在美国也有一万个人刚刚知道呢。

——How to: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, 一本开脑洞向的一本正经地胡说八道。

After all, for anything that “everyone knows” by the time they reach adulthood, every day over 10,000 people in the United States alone are learning it for the first time.

（书本身多看几章掌握思路就有点审美疲劳，但是开端这个闻道有先后所以不要自鸣得意嘲笑别人“连这都不知道”的思路深以为然）

#reading #LPT #HowTo

一“马力”并不是马能拉的最大力定义的，而是马能长期问题持续输出的力。马的短期输出大概是 10~20 马力。

a horsepower is defined by work done over a long period—but a horse’s maximum short-term output is more like 10 or 20 horsepower.

——How to: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, 一本开脑洞向的一本正经地胡说八道。

#reading #funfact #science #HowTo

当运动员的分数和他们死亡的几率有强烈正相关性显然会成为这项运动的一个大问题。竞速滑雪在 1992 年的冬奥会昙花一现，但是在一系列的致死意外之后，被完全从竞技项目中移除了。

When a competitor’s score in a sport is strongly correlated with their odds of dying, it creates obvious problems for the sport. Speed skiing was briefly featured at the 1992 Olympics, but, after a number of deadly accidents, has been mostly abandoned at the competitive level.

——How to: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, 一本开脑洞向的一本正经地胡说八道。

#reading #HowTo #funfact (not sure if this is "fun" but you got the idea)