Makeup and Mercury
Allow me to paint a familiar picture: You’re having a debate with your friend, maybe your parents, maybe an annoying younger sibling. Anyway, you make some kind of factual claim, a perfectly logical statement that makes perfect sense to you, but seems obviously wrong to the other person. Regardless of what you two were arguing about, now the debate has shifted to the Verity (see what I did there?) of whatever you just said. After a while of back and forth combined with an argument going slower than molasses dripping uphill, one of you decides to bring out the ultimate weapon in any argument: Google. Your debate partner furiously whips out their mobile phone and searches up the question, and only a few short seconds later, they present to you the truth that the argument you had so much logical faith in… was blatantly wrong. In utter disbelief, you also Google the question, and the universe reaffirms to you that despite your greatest intellec...
