I never realised it was so you could do that. I’ve seen people tie the string round the cup, but that always looks really fiddly to me.
This one blew my mind the other day.
In 1859, a British farmer called Thomas Austin brought 24 rabbits with him to his new home in Australia. Within six years, the country’s rabbit population had swelled to 22 million.
As with Covid R-number stuff, it seems like we (simple human dum-dums) find it really difficult to get a concrete sense of what exponential growth actually means.
EDIT: that tea trick is wicked. just tried it I usually wrap the string around the cup handle but the label tuck thing is better.
40% of under 30 year olds in a psychology research project said that if the choice was between their smartphone being smashed in an accident and breaking a bone in their hand, they’d go for the hand.