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Gyroscopic forces of spinning wheels don't keep a bicycle upright
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., May 27, 2005
The aphorism "Faith means believing what you know ain't so" has been attributed to Will Rogers and Friedrich Nietzsche, but it was really Mark Twain's character, Pudd'nhead Wilson, who used the phrase, and Wilson attributed it to "the schoolboy."
Researchers at Northwestern University say your brain functions a lot like the Internet or a network of friends. They used functional magnetic resonance imaging to study the brain and concluded it can be visualized as a complex interacting network that relies on nodes to efficiently convey information from place to place.Gyroscopic forces of spinning wheels don't keep a bicycle upright. It's balance, just the same as when you're walking, running, or skating.
McLennan County, Texas, produced six Civil War generals and sent more than 2,200 troops to fight for the Confederacy – out of a population of about 8,000.
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