Safe/Vault

If you have a safe in your home be sure to bolt it to the floor. If it's not firmly secured to the ground, in the event of a robbery, burglars will simply dolly it off and break into later.

Word Definitions

Here are some definitions of words that are thrown around a lot along with definitions of the more complicated words that make up those previous definitions:

Fascism: An authoritarian and nationalistic right wing system of government and social organization

Authoritarian: Favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom.

Right Wing: The conservative or reactionary section of a political party system.

Conservative: Holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation, typically in relation to politics or religion.

Reactionary: Opposing political or social reform.

Nationalistic: A person with strong patriotic feelings, especially one who believes in superiority of their country over others.

(Definitions pulled from the Dictionary Apple Widget)

Breaded chicken

Breaded chicken involves dipping the chicken in a beaten egg and breadcrumbs and then baking it. However, you must keep the beaten egg and breadcrumbs in separate bowls- consolidating them to one creates an unusuable breadcrumb/egg paste.

Rent interest

A reason not to pay all your for a period of time rent upfront (if you have that luxury) is because if you pay periodically, the rest of that period of time's rent can accumulate interest in a back account.

Disposing fluorescent bulbs

Compact fluorescent bulbs- the energy efficient lights that are becoming more popular- contain mercury and cannot be thrown away in regular household garbage unless there is no other method of disposal.

Local disposal centers can be found through Earth 911. Additional information about compact fluorescent bulbs can be found at Lamp Recycle, as well as the FAQ page at GE.

Modern myths

Two myths that are untrue:

"You only use ten percent of your brain."
If that were true, the remaining 90% would be vestigial remnants and eventually degrade away due to evolution, much like our appendices and the eyes of cave-dwelling animals.

The saying more closely corresponds to saying "You're only using ten percent of your muscles at one time." Over the course of the day, you'll use parts of your brain for various activities and by the end of the day end up using most, if not all, of the brain.

More detail here.

"Science has proven that bumblebees cannot fly. Bumblebees do not know this, however, and therefore are able to fly."

In the 1950s science tried to apply rigid-wing aerodynamic equations to insects and were unable to determine from said equations how the insects could fly. However, insects wings are flexible and rotate in ways that the equations couldn't accommodate for. So it is not that bumblebees cannot fly, but it's that they fly in a manner unlike our airplanes.

Method of contact

If you want to write your congressional representative, they prefer e-mails over standard mail.