Gravity behaves differently around the world — a baseball hit the same way in Miami flies about a foot farther than in Seattle, thanks to weaker centrifugal pull near the equator.

a state of balance or equilibrium between opposing forces.

easily angered; prone to irritability or short temper.

mutual courtesy, respect, and harmony among people or nations.

to win over or make peace with; to calm hostility.

cheerful readiness or eagerness to respond or act.

a journey, especially a long or meandering one; travelling from place to place.

Showing great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or objective.

likely or liable to be influenced or harmed by a particular thing.

stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or course of action.

(formal) slow or reluctant to act; medically: constipated.