Prove your wordpower
Ah, brevity. [Insert tedious piece of waffling prose extolling its virtues]
But seriously, I came across a fantastic little site today. Called the Ten Word Wiki, it is precisely that. No more than ten words to describe any given topic.
I did some typing, and have given a couple of the topical words for which there were entries…
Creationism
Simple explanation of universe for stupid people who failed science.
Homeopathy
Water with a ‘memory’ that knows what’s best for you.
(the above linked to) Placebo effect
How homeopathy works. You think the pill made you better.
Climate
Rain, rain, wind, snow, sleet, rain but never the sun
Physics
The use of mathematics and experiments to understand the universe.
Maths
Doing fancy clever things with numbers (and also sometimes letters)
(also, for the Brits: England – A place to drink tea and complain about the weather.
And for the Scots: Scotland – “Weather‘s shit. So inhabitants drink whisky, fight and invent everything.”)
Most of the words I typed in weren’t there, as it were, so the site is desperately in need of more stuff, particularly in the sciencey areas. For example, an explanation for ‘science’ is missing – anyone got any ideas?
So…do you want to submit explanations? Or submit better ones than are already there? Go for it!
And finally: if you do submit a work/explanation, please leave a comment here saying what it was 🙂
0 Responses to “Prove your wordpower”
It had to be done:
http://tenwordwiki.wikispot.org/New_Zealand
bwahaha! according to the latest Guest Work post on farms stats, maybe one/two less sheep and one/two more dairy?
With those stats, I make it 7.1 words-worth of sheep, 0.8 words of beef, 1.2 words of dairy, and 0.9 words of people. Coz, you know, I’m neurotic about getting that kind of thing right.
fair enough – i was going by a more seat-of-the-pants approach, and bow to your superior detailiness 🙂
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