boredom takes many forms,
yesterday I mentioned making model engines as a way to past the time, but here is another way to pass the hours,
one Vietnamese mathematics student recently spent a day
meticulously extracting every single seed from a piece of dragon fruit and
presenting her finding online, “So far, I found out that in a piece of dragon
fruit weighing 13,867g (height: 46mm, length: 32mm) has up to 245 seeds and
that, on average, a seed weighs 0.0045322449g ,” the student wrote on Facebook,
“I was bored, so…” the young woman explained, when people started asking her
why she went through the trouble of counting hundreds of tiny seeds,
as
strange as it may sound, counting fruit seeds has become quite popular during
the ongoing social distancing lifestyle imposed in many countries,
because
of the coronavirus pandemic, social media is full of photos of strawberries,
and dragon fruits with all their tiny seeds that people have picked out and counted out of boredom, I think I will stick with making the engine models!
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