We need to talk about Brexit

There is nothing that epitomizes the name of this blog more than Brexit. It's an act of political and economic suicide - a fact which pretty much everyone in the world can see except, apparently, us here in the UK. If any act can truly be called 'devoid of thought', it's Brexit.

I'm going to try and collate on this blog some of the posts I come across regarding Brexit. They will mostly be anti-Brexit, but that's only because there a very few, if any, factually correct pro-Brexit articles - very few because it's such a colossally stupid idea.

Did You Know... No. 1

In the UK, one penny coins are only legal tender for amounts up to 20p. (Source: Royal Mint)

Science Myth: Water Conducts Electricity

Pure water itself doesn’t conduct electricity. It’s the impurities in the water, like salt, that do. But no water you come across is likely to be completely pure, so keep your hairdryer out of the bathroom to be on the safe side.

Science Myth: Glass is a Slow-Moving Liquid

You may have lived for field trips as a kid, looking forward to a whole day of out-of-school fun and exploring. That is, until you got started on a tour of some musty building that seemed, well, boring. Not even the tour guide's explanation of how the glass in the wavy, uneven windowpanes has slowly flowed downward over time could keep your attention.

Liquid windowpanes? No.

Rather than the (magical-sounding) slow drip of centuries, the reason old glass windows aren't perfectly even and clear is because of how they were made. Until the early-mid 1800s, most window glass was made using a process called the crown method. The glass was blown, flattened, heated and spun, yielding a sheet that was relatively cheap to produce. It was also rippled and thicker in some places than in others.

In other words, the windows looked that way when they were installed, and they look that way now. No downhill liquid flow is involved. (And if you're really wondering: Glass is an amorphous solid.