For us to stay curious, it’s important to find time in our day that we can dedicate to reading about new research or learning novel activities. If you struggle to branch out of your usual area of interests to keep your fascination about the world alive, we got your back with some additional rare facts from experts who come from various fields of expertise.
In a previous interview with Bored Panda broadcast meteorologist Janice Davila told us that one of the most unknown pieces of information from her profession is that weather radars are tilted at a half-degree (1/2°) angle.
“This means that when you or someone else opens a weather app only to see that it says it's raining, it actually means the radar is detecting the rain at 1/2 degree up rather than looking at the surface. If you're not seeing any rain, it's because it's evaporated by the time it passed the radar, reaching the surface,” she explained.
Meanwhile, Mark Janes, a chartered biologist and scientist, revealed in a past interview that life is inherently simple, with carbon being its main ingredient. It’s an element that can be found everywhere, from living things and air to the ocean, rocks and fossils. Carbon is essential to all life on Earth, even humans, as it makes up fats and carbohydrates that make up molecules and our DNA, which makes up our bodies.
Another unusual piece of information about our world that meteorologist, atmospheric scientist, and owner of Makens Weather, Matt Makens, told us in a previous interview is that there’s an extreme weight of moisture in the air. “Especially within thunderstorms that are miles high and carry large hail...the tremendous amount of upward wind to enable all of that water and ice to stay in the air is mind-blowing to us as observers when we watch those thunderstorms pass through.”
These experts are also driven by curiosity and still have some mysteries they would like to find out in their field of expertise. For example, Davila is trying to see if the rise and fall of barometric pressure can be related to migraines. While Makens wants to discover the driving forces behind warm and cool phases of a natural climate pattern across the tropical Pacific—El Niño and La Niña. Until now, no one was able to exactly pinpoint why they occur.
