Jason E. Andersen

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Welcome to a world of limitless possibilities, where the journey is as exhilarating as the destination, and where every moment is an opportunity to make your mark on the canvas of existence. The only limit is the extent of your imagination.

  • Just your average snow

    Bonus Fun Fact: Iowa receives an average of 34.9 inches of snow per year. Oddly enough, Dubuque is the snowiest city in Iowa, with an average of 42.5 inches. On the other hand, Mount Rainier, in Washington state, gets a whopping 645.5 average inches of snow each year. Mount Rainier also holds the worldwide record…

  • Subtle snowflake special

    Bonus Fun Fact: Snowflakes are not merely frozen droplets of water — that’s what freezing rain or sleet would be considered. No, snowflakes are formed from a much more subtle and special process! Snowflakes are formed when super-cooled water vapor comes in contact with dust or pollen particles that are suspended in the atmosphere. This…

  • Recycled mullets

    Bonus Fun Fact: Did you happen to save your calendar from 1992? If so, you’re in luck, because you can reuse it this year! In fact, there are only 14 distinct calendars that repeat over the course of 28 years. I tried to understand the math of it, but it was beyond me. If someone can…

  • Bring on the new year!

    Bonus Fun Fact: The failure rate for New Year’s resolutions is approximately 80%, with most people losing their resolve by mid-February. But that’s not an excuse to not try! The problem is that making positive change is hard and it takes a lot of work to be successful. I want to encourage everyone to do something…

  • On hreinndýr

    Bonus Fun Fact: The name ‘reindeer’ has nothing to do with reins like you would find attached to Santa’s sleigh. The name is actually derived from the Norse words ‘hreinn’, meaning reindeer, and ‘dyr’, meaning animal. So I guess that means a ‘hreinndyr’ is a ‘reindeer animal’. Bonus Bonus Fun Fact: The names ‘reindeer’ and ‘caribou’ refer…

  • Many make one

    Bonus Fun Fact: The average human body is composed of 37.2 trillion cells. That’s 37,200,000,000,000 if you were going to write it out. It’s a big number. To maybe put it in perspective, we’ll use time as a metaphor — a million seconds is 13 days, and a billion seconds is 31 years. That’s quite a leap in…

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