The Aspiring Archivist

Isn't it great when you have a combination of physical and mental illness?

Anyway, I've been reading some more of WoK. That's fun.

PSA: If you get bitten by some unknown animal (as in, there's any chance at all of rabies), UNDER NO CONDITION should you wait until there are symptoms to go to the hospital. With rabies, if you get the shot before symptoms, you are pretty much guaranteed to survive. But once you have symptoms, you are pretty much guaranteed to die. So... stay safe out there.

Other random fact: Metal doesn't actually have a smell. Even if you think it does, the smell you receive happens because the metal is reacting with the oils in your skin. A material cannot be completely stable and unreactive if it has a smell, because otherwise there would be nothing for your nose to detect.

Final note of interest: Even though what we think of most often in terms of flowing charge is electricity in a wire, conventional current is arbitrarily determined by the flow of positive charge, so the direction of current in a wire is opposite from the direction in which the electrons move. This does highlight, however, that there are actually many other ways that charge can flow, such as with entire positive or negative ions (charged atoms/molecules) moving, or the shifting of gaps in charge (or "holes") across a surface.