I recently read a book called F in exams: the very best worst test answers. One of the questions was "What did Issac Newton do?" The answer given was "He invented gravity."
I saw something similar while researching Native American inventions for a report. One site claimed that Native Americans had "invented hair." What?! People don't invent things. People discover sombinations of things that can do something else. by the current webster's definition of "invention" ("dicovery, finding") a child with a never before created combination of legos has "invented" something. Nobody thinks like that, for some reason. Inventions, by human standards, have to be unique and difficult to produce. That seems some what random to me.
On a diffeerent note, wouldn't it be cool if we could invent things such as gravity and hair? I can imagine the eminent professor B. X. Glockensphichielenheimerverrestyxinmitomer inventing the "completely automatic weight system-gravity!" And all the students clap and cheer and try it out free for 30 days.
Hey, I just invented something!
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