"If you're pre-born, you're fine; if you're preschool, you're fucked" – George Carlin, on a form of hypocrisy that's particularly relevant this week (M)
(M)any materials experience "fatigue", where, because of cyclic loading, they'll begin to deform or even fail well below their theoretical yield strength
In science, a law isn't "better than" a theory. Laws are descriptive (e.g., energy is neither created nor destroyed) while theories are explanatory. Both are well supported by evidence (M)