Feb.06, 2001, filed under Miscellany
Apparently penguins don’t topple over when aircraft fly overhead. I was unaware that anyone thought they did, so the fact that a national broadsheet is devoting space to this story came as more of a surprise than the penguins remaining upright. It’s funny what people will spend money to research.
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Singularity
~something that is singular as (a) a separate unit, or (b) unusual or distinctive manner or behavior; PECULIARITY;
~the quality or state of being singular;
~a point at which the derivative of a given function of a complex variable does not exist but every neighborhood of which contains points for which the derivative exists;
~a point or region of infinite mass density at which space and time are infinitely distorted by gravitational forces and which is held to be the final state of matter falling into a black hole. Sight
