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Archimedes knew the golden power of boredom so why can't we stop bringing our phones into the bathroom? | Miski Omar

Archimedes discovered that the volume of water displaced by an object is equal to the volume of the object itself, enabling him to determine the crown's purity.
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1 year ago

Archimedes - Going All Out on the Eureka Can | HackerNoon

Archimedes was the King's trusted scientist in Syracuse around 250 BC, tasked to ensure the purity of a crown suspected to be mixed with bronze.
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