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Hi! I’m Signore Galilei, and I write books, create educational videos online, and participated in the Inkhaven blogging residency.
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We’re missing an entire kind of asteroid
Not all asteroids in the solar system reside in the asteroid belt. The main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter does holds most of our solar system’s asteroids, at least several million, but there are many other smaller groups of asteroids. Almost every gravitationally stable region of the Solar System has at least one known…
These 6 countries secretly have the same name
Country names aren’t always unique in the world. Look on a world map and you’ll see 2 Koreas, 2 Congos, and a full 4 Guineas. But there are some examples that are more hidden. Specifically, there are many combinations of countries whose names might look different in English, but ultimately come from the same meaning.…
What’s Earth’s dominant species by mass?
You might have heard that all the ants in the world weigh as much combined as all the humans. That isn’t true. We outweigh ants 5 to 1.1 Termites might have us beat, though.2 Either way, it’s not really a fair comparison. There are thousands of species of ants and termites, and just one species…