Post a little known fact (has to be true), about anything, anyone or anywhere. i'll start in: there are 2 billion insects for every square mile.
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Well, that bugs the hectare outta me.
According to Reader's Digest, sarcasm boosts creativity.
It takes one nest of fire ants to hold a square mile's quota of insects.
You can just buy a cable with a guitar plug on one end and a headphone plug on the other end. They sell them at the store.
This is important because it can connect your phone to a guitar amp. And even a modest little 40 watt amp can blast music you can hear for more than a mile. Party on!
This is important because it can connect your phone to a guitar amp. And even a modest little 40 watt amp can blast music you can hear for more than a mile. Party on!
The Horsehead Nebula is so large, that if we were able to, it would take 129,500 years to travel across it.
interesting because i was walking my black lab at night once back in 88' & while looking up in the sky i noticed orion the hunter. so, along with that, the horse head nebula was the 2nd skysight that got me started on an astronomy hobby.
Because it boosts creativity in the hearer as much as the sarcaster, I think it's well worth the risk.
I will have to retrieve the article which does happen to address this particular concern.
When a logic and critical thinking classmate objected to my use of sarcasm as serious scholarship, my professor defended it as a legitimate, and effective, form of expression.
An excerpt from the Jan 13 2013 article
And as if that weren’t enough of a reason to embrace the snark, sarcasm can also boost the creativity of the recipients, too! Using it involves making connections between opposing ideas, and interpreting it also requires your brain to reason beyond the literal.
Sarcasm is a powerful tool. As a weapon it can cause a lot of damage.
The validity of its use depends, as with anything that can be used as a weapon, on where it is being aimed, and with what intent.
It is most commonly known for being used for evil, and it is very easy to use it that way. It takes a lot more care and precision to use it for good.
The ease of use for evil makes it all the more troubling that it can cause so much damage. Almost anybody can use it to hurt somebody.
She, did provide a link "studies that show" or similar wording, but I didn't follow the link, and neither does my browser save my history but searching, I use bing, 'facts you didn't know' together with 'reader's digest' should retrieve the article as one of the top results pretty readily.
Here is the article