Jumbled Paragraphs (Parajumbles)

1. The King of the land wanted to wear a Golden Crown. He gave some gold to a goldsmith to make a suitable crown.
2. The King looked at the colour of the crown. He had a suspicion. The goldsmith could have stolen some gold from the gold given to him.
3. After a few days, the goldsmith brought the finished crown to the King. The crown was weighed. The weight of the crown was equal to the gold given to the goldsmith by the King.
4. Archimedes was a Greek scientist. He lives in Syracuse nearly 200 years ago.
5. The King wanted to find out the truth. He asked his court scientist Archimedes to find out. The King said, “Find out how much gold had been stolen?”

1. An interesting note: Cavers who witnessed earthquakes while underground have described sounds as if a distant aircraft was passing by, as in becoming perceptibly louder, then fading away.
2. So are caves safe in earthquakes? Generally yes, but it depends on the cave characteristics and where you are in it.
3. These effects are far short of a total passage collapse, but collapse of portions of cave ceilings has been observed in caves, notably from caves in Missouri and Indiana near the New Madrid and Wabash seismic zones.
4. Shaking effects inside caves include damage to delicate formations like soda straw stalactites that effectively “die” and stop growing. Sometimes stalagmites or columns can be toppled. Toppled or not, renewed growth on them can occur.

1. The company went on to buy other board game companies like Avalon Hill, Wizards of the Coast, and Coleco.
2. Though the acquisition raised antitrust concerns, the FTC never took action. And just like that, a once wide-open industry was largely closed to competition.
3. Founded by the Hassenfeld brothers in 1923, Hasbro became a player in board games in the early 1980s when it acquired Milton Bradley.
4. In 1991, it wrangled Parker Brothers away from Tonka.

1. Because they aim quickly to acquaint the student with what the contemporary scientific community thinks it knows, textbooks treat the various experiments, concepts, laws and theories of the current normal science as separately and as nearly seriatim as possible.
2. Those misconstructions render revolutions invisible; the arrangement of the still visible material in science texts implies a process that, if it existed, would deny revolutions a function.
3. But when combined with the generally unhistorical air of science writing and with the occasional systematic misconstruction, one impression is likely to follow.
4. As pedagogy this technique of presentation is unexceptionable.

Science has reached its present state by a series of individual discoveries and inventions that, when gathered together, constitute the modern body of technical knowledge.

1. The team then asked the participants to watch a heart-warming film about an Olympic win, and questioned them about their feelings afterwards.
2. Mauss and her colleagues wanted to see if they could manipulate people’s attitudes to alter their happiness in the short-term.
3. To do so, they asked half their participants to read a fake newspaper article extolling the importance of happiness, while the control group read a similar article about the benefits of “good judgement”, with no reference to emotion.
4. Once again, they noted an ironic effect: the film was less likely to buoy the mood of the people who had been primed to desire greater happiness, compared with the people who had read the neutral article.

1. Pilots almost always flew against their squadron mates, which meant they had little if any experience of fighting aircraft with different performance characteristics.
2. Even fewer pilots had any experience of going up against equipment, tactics, or capabilities that emulated a potential enemy.
3. A critical component in the performance of American pilots was determined as a deficiency in training against dissimilar types.
4. The Red Baron reports looked at every significant air-to-air engagement of the war, and what factors led to a win or a loss.

1. In mere months, science became thoroughly COVID-ized.
2. The coronavirus that causes it, SARS CoV 2, had only recently jumped into humans and had been neither identified nor named.
3. Thousands of researchers dropped whatever intellectual puzzles had previously consumed their curiosity and began working on the pandemic instead.
4. But by the end of March 2020, it had spread to more than 170 countries, sickened more than 750,000 people, and triggered the biggest pivot in the history of modern science.
5. In fall of 2019, exactly zero scientists were studying COVID 19, because no one knew the disease existed

1. To begin, the researchers began by establishing that people do, in fact, assign more tasks to those they perceived as more competent.
2. In a separate experiment, undergrads were asked to delegate essays for proofreading to other students with varying levels of self-control.
3. When Sam was presented as someone with great self-control, participants expected much more of Sam’s performance at his manufacturing job.
4. In a survey, participants read statements about a fictional employee “Sam”—different groups read different statements about Sam indicating how much self-control he had (self-control was used as a proxy for competence).
5. Unsurprisingly those with more self-control ended up with more work assigned to them.

1. In 2007, Diane Barrett, a former food science and technology researcher at the University of California, Davis, reviewed numerous studies looking into the nutritional content of fresh, frozen and tinned fruits and vegetables.
2. Refrigerating produce slows down the process of nutrition degradation, although the rate at which nutritional value is lost varies from one product to the next.
3. But carrots, by contrast, only lose 27% of their vitamin C content when stored for a week at room temperature.
4. She found that spinach, for example, loses 100% of its vitamin C content in seven days if stored at a room temperature of 20C (68F); it loses 75% if refrigerated.

1. “We used to have our Gmail constantly opened,” he said. Then they heard about a slick new instant-messenger service named Slack that promised to streamline office communication: “There was this hype, so we decided to try it.”
2. In 2016, I interviewed an entrepreneur named Sean who had co-founded a small technology start-up based in London.
3. When I spoke with him, some time had passed since this incident, but the memory of the service’s omnipresent notification ping remained strong. “I hear that sound, it gives me the shivers,” he said.
4. As with many organizations at that time, Sean and his team relied on e-mail as their primary collaboration tool.
5. Once the team switched to the tool, the rate of back-and-forth messaging intensified, eventually reaching a stressful peak when a demanding client insisted on the ability to directly communicate with Sean’s employees using Slack.
6. The team soon burned out, and two engineers quit. In desperation, Sean moved the company off Slack.