10 Common Misconceptions Dispelled (Part4)
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1. Chameleons Don’t Change Color to Match Their Environment
2. French Toast Was Not Invented in France
3. Dropping a Penny from the Top of the Empire State Building Isn’t Dangerous
4. Koalas Are Not a Type of Bear
5. Microwaves Don’t Cook From the Inside Out
6. Albert Einstein Did Not Fail at Mathematics in School
7. Handling a Baby Bird Will Not Cause the Parent Birds to Reject It
8. Poinsettias Are Not Poisonous
9. Cockroaches Would Not Survive an Extreme Nuclear Fallout
10. An Asteroid Field Would Actually Be Quite Safe to Fly Through
2. French Toast Was Not Invented in France
3. Dropping a Penny from the Top of the Empire State Building Isn’t Dangerous
4. Koalas Are Not a Type of Bear
5. Microwaves Don’t Cook From the Inside Out
6. Albert Einstein Did Not Fail at Mathematics in School
7. Handling a Baby Bird Will Not Cause the Parent Birds to Reject It
8. Poinsettias Are Not Poisonous
9. Cockroaches Would Not Survive an Extreme Nuclear Fallout
10. An Asteroid Field Would Actually Be Quite Safe to Fly Through
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So, as interesting as the content of these graphics are, do you find that anyone ever links to them? Personally, I’d rather just read text that isn’t embedded in a graphic — and that includes the Today In History posts. I’ll read the standard text content every time, but the graphic text just gets in the way, even if they look nice.
@Scott: I tend to prefer the text myself. However, about 50% of this site’s traffic comes thanks to the infographics and a good percentage of the links backs to this site, even though obviously I think there are only about 30-40 infographics vs around 600-700-ish regular articles. The This Day in History posts are supposed to be short and I wanted them to be embeddable for other people, hence the picture form. While other people do seem to embed them a lot in their sites with linkbacks, I apparently have a condition and can’t seem to ever manage to make them short. as I intended. 🙂