Potential Study #2

Say that my work building collapses. Would I have a better chance of survival if I were on the top floor, or the bottom floor?

I need to buy one of those "Worst Case Scenario" books.

Potential Study #1

Say that you have a large jar of trail mix: peanuts, sunflower seeds, raisins, and m&m's. If you shake it, won't the heavier objects (peanuts) settle at the bottom and the lighter objects (sunflower seeds) rise to the top? Or will the sunflower seeds fall to the bottom because they're small?

No matter which direction it would take, I'd also like to track one individual seed on its journey and see how it ends up where it does.

Mail + Potential Study #0

More snow today. It's never enough, though. I am dying to go sledding.

A few days ago we went for a walk in the snow. It was quiet and peaceful and beautiful outside, and we spent time commenting on our neighbors' houses. Surprisingly, there were a lot of jumbo mailboxes. Like, triple the size of ours.

I wonder what a graph of the amount of mail the USPS delivers would look like over the past two decades. Has email lessened the amount, or have credit card offers counteracted the email effect? I am curious to see how much junk mail we receive annually. It's terrible. I love mailmen, though. And mail trucks.