University of Life Writing Center

» A vibration is a motion that cannot make up its mind which way it wants to go.
» Genetics explain why you look like your father and if you don’t why you should.
» Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know they’re there.
» Some oxygen molecules help fires burn while others help make water, so sometimes it’s brother
against brother.
» We say the cause of perfume disappearing is evaporation. Evaporation gets blamed for a lot of
things people forget to put the top on.
» To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists solutions are things that
are still all mixed up.
» In looking at a drop of water under a microscope, we find there are twice as many H’s as O’s.
» Clouds are high flying fogs.
» I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the
important thing.
» Clouds just keep circling the earth around and around. And around. There is not much else to
do.
» Water vapor gets together in a cloud. When it is big enough to be called a drop, it does.
» Humidity is the experience of looking for air and finding water.
» We keep track of the humidity in the air so we won’t drown when we breathe.
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» Rain is often known as soft water, oppositely known as hail.
» Rain is saved up in cloud banks.
» Question: What is one horsepower? Answer: One horsepower is the
amount of energy it takes to drag a horse 500 feet in one second.
» You can listen to thunder after lightening and tell how close you came to
getting hit. If you don’t hear it you got hit, so never mind.
» Talc is found on rocks and on babies.
» The law of gravity says no fair jumping up without coming back down.
» When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with
atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found they were stuffed
with explosions.
» When people run around and around in circles we say they are crazy.
When planets do it we say they are orbiting.
» Rainbows are just to look at, not really to understand.
» While the earth seems to be knowingly keeping its distance from the
sun, it is really only centrificating.
» Someday we may discover how to make magnets that can point in any
direction.
» South America has cold summers and hot winters, but somehow they
still manage.
» Most books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to change
back into a sun in the daytime.
» Water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees. There are 180
degrees between freezing and boiling because there are 180 degrees
between north and south.
» There are 26 vitamins in all, but some of the letters are yet to be
discovered. Finding them all means living forever.
» There is a tremendous weight pushing down on the center of the Earth
because of so much population stomping around up there these days.
» Lime is a green tasting rock.
» Many dead animals in the past changed to fossils while others preferred
to be oil.
» Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. But I have
never been able to make out the numbers.
» In some rocks you can find the fossil footprints of fishes.
» Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dog’s tongue will kill the
strongest man.
» A blizzard is when it snows sideways.
» A hurricane is a breeze of a bigly size.
» A monsoon is a French gentleman.
» Thunder is a rich source of loudness.
» Isotherms and isobars are even more important than their names sound.
» It is so hot in some places that the people there have to live in other
places.
» The wind is like the air, only pushier.

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