Half-Life of FactsDinosaurs were cold-blooded. Vast increases in the money supply produce inflationIncreased K-12 spending andlower pupil/teacher ratios boosts public school student outcomesMost of the DNAin the human genome is junkSaccharincauses cancer and a high fiber dietprevents itStars cannot be bigger than150 solar masses. And by the way, what are the ten most populous cities in the United States?
In the past half century, all of the foregoing facts have turned out to be wrong (except perhaps the one about inflation rates). We'll revisit the ten biggest cities question below. In the modern world facts change all of the time, according to Samuel Arbesman, author of The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date. /.../