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This is a weekly wrap of our popular Daily Knowledge Newsletter. You can get that newsletter for free here<\/a>.<\/div>\n

\"big-bang\"<\/a>What is the Hottest Temperature Possible?<\/a><\/p>\n

The idea of absolute hot springs from its better-known cousin, absolute zero, which, as you may recall, is 0 K, -273.15\u00b0 C or -459.67\u00b0 F. And although abridged definitions of\u00a0the lowest temperature will frequently state it is the point at which matter stops moving, this is technically incorrect. Absolute zero is actually the point where molecular motion no longer produces heat (but does have zero-point energy). Conversely, absolute hot, then, could be defined as the point where molecular motion couldn\u2019t produce any more heat, no matter what the circumstances. In the Standard Model of the universe, the hottest possible temperature ever reached occurred a fraction of a second… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"toilet-bowl-flush\"<\/a>What Happens After You Flush?<\/a><\/p>\n

For you, the trip has ended. You\u2019ve \u201cdone your business,\u201d (hopefully you\u2019ve also had a few minutes of quality reading time), you\u2019ve flushed the toilet, and you\u2019ve moved onto the next thing. But for your \u201cbusiness,\u201d a.k.a. organic solid waste, a.k.a. \u201cNumber Two,\u201d the trip is just beginning. Here\u2019s a general idea of what happens next. If you live in a rural area, your house is probably hooked up to a septic tank. We\u2019ll get to that later. Before the 20th century, \u201csanitary systems\u201d typically dumped raw sewage directly into rivers, streams, and oceans. Today, if you live… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"mothers-day\"<\/a>The Origins of Mother\u2019s Day and Its Inventor\u2019s Campaign to Put a Stop to It<\/a><\/p>\n

Today, Mother\u2019s Day is a holiday of joy, brunches, gifts, flowers and phone calls. In fact, phone traffic spikes more on Mother\u2019s Day than any other holiday. This annual celebration of moms everywhere was first officially established in 1914 when President Woodrow Wilson issued a presidential proclamation, which read that this is the day we \u201c[publicly express] our love and reverence for the mothers of our country.\u201d The mother of Mother\u2019s Day was a woman named Anna Jarvis, who, despite never becoming a mother, spent many years advocating for a national day for mothers because she felt they didn\u2019t get enough recognition for all they did. Unfortunately, after she was successful in her campaign, Jarvis became so distraught by the commercialization of Mother\u2019s Day that she eventually denounced the holiday and campaigned… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"dog-head-transplant\"<\/a>Two-Headed Dogs and Human Head Transplants<\/a><\/p>\n

Medical science has advanced an astounding amount in the last 50 years or so and we can do things today that a half a century ago even in that era\u2019s science fiction would have been considered science fiction. By the same token though, there were things done in the 1950s and 1960s that people today are still skeptical actually happened, like all those experiments that resulted in a bunch of two headed dogs. Said experiments were conducted by one, Vladimir Demikhov, a Soviet scientist who is noted as being a pioneer in the field of organ transplantation. Dr. Demikhov was responsible for, amongst other things, pioneering the use of immuno-suppressants in organ transplants and designing the \u201cfirst mechanical cardiac-assist device\u201d, essentially the precursor to modern artificial hearts. With this latter device, Demikhov was able… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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