In the following video, Matt Strafuss, a technical instructor at MIT’s Physics Department, demonstrates the ideal gas law. A drop in temperature with fixed mass and external pressure will result in a smaller volume, and vice-versa. [Via MIT News]
What happens when you combine two of the most implausible time travel movies of all time into one great trailer? This is what happens:
A man who cracked his knuckles every day for 60 years and a team who made a convertible bra/gas mask have won Nobel prizes. Scratch that. They’ve won Ig Nobel prizes. The real prizes established by Alfred Nobel’s will are to be presented over the next couple of weeks. However, as has now been traditional [...]
In the following video, American astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson gets asked if he believes in UFOs. As usual, the answer he provides is both hilarious and enlightening. The argument from ignorance, also known as argumentum ad ignorantiam (“appeal to ignorance”), argument by lack of imagination, or negative evidence, is a logical fallacy in which it [...]
By Natania Barron Contributing Writer, [GAS] I was a bit miffed when my husband got his Google Wave invite before me; I mean, seriously. I showed it to him in the first place. Still, I’ve been insanely curious since learning about the new product–developed by the makers of GoogleMaps, by the way–since I first watched [...]
Ok, I want to hear everyone now: 1, 2, 3…. Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww! :) [Via Reddit]
A tribute to the elder god by the Eben Brooks Band. They recorded this using a karaoke track of “Hey There, Delilah”. For some reason or another, there are parodies of this song everywhere I surfed today, but this is the only one that I considered worth passing along. [via Cynical-C]
The bad news: Americans pay more than anybody else in the world for cell phone service. The good news: Putting that expensive device down will help keep your IQ up.
Next time somebody condemns your favourite video game as crude entertainment, you can now legally argue it is in fact a work of art. That’s the argument used by a Los Angeles judge who rejected a lawsuit filed by NFL legend Jim Brown (pictured) against Electronic Arts. Brown had argued that EA had breached his [...]
In the following video, Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, explains how Microsoft is turning piracy into money by letting people in under-developed countries use their software for “free”. Later, when these countries start to prosper, the users, who are now hooked on Microsoft’s technologies, will apparently pay for the products gladly.
This short Twilight spoof by Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn was recently presented at the Fantastic Fest in Austin, TX. Enjoy! Warning: Video contains blood.
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] Just when you thought it was disturbing enough that 75% of high school students in Oklahoma can’t name the first U.S. president (and less than half can name the two U.S. political parties), it seems like there is always some new study lurking around the corner to show the [...]
