An article in the Journal of English Linguistics (Soda or Pop?, #24, 1996) explores the way we address our favorite drink. Soda, which the average American drinks about 43 gallons of per year, has a lot of different names. Those names have been mapped by county so that the regions where different names are predominant […]
I’m usually not a fan of LOLCats, but this was just too good to pass up. [via Korben.info (French)]
Yes folks, now that the LHC has already fired 2 beams of protons, one clock-wise, and one counter clock-wise, you can be pretty sure that today won’t be the day you die. But it wasn’t supposed to happen anyways. Do you know why? Because no particle collisions have occured as of yet, and none will […]
If I were you, I’d never use this service. You just might not like what it makes you discover.
Just a quick post to point you guys to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) live webstream. The link we’ve posted a few days ago points to a very small video of the event, so we thought that you would appreciate seeing the whole thing in full screen. Enjoy!
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] I just love it when I stumble across a fantastic new blog, and last night was no exception. Yesterday’s new find was “The Art of Manliness” and the article that especially caught my attention was “The Gentleman’s Guide to the Calling Card”. I highly recommend you read it. Even […]
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We all know that crop circles come from aliens right? Some people seem to think that the mysterious patterns are created by smart-ass humans… but come on, this can’t be true! Don’t believe us? Here’s the proof: Ok, jokes aside, this small segment was actually filmed as part of an ad for the Belgian State […]
As the LHC’s activation date approaches (only two days left now, folks!), scientists working on the super-collider have started receiving large amounts of pleas, some which include death threats, asking to stop the potential apocalypse-bringing machine. According to an article published on the Telegraph, CERN, the organization behind the project, has been bombarded with calls, […]
A while ago, we wrote about how magazine covers would eventually go high-tech, and specifically, how Esquire would soon revolutionize the world of offline publications by featuring an animated E-Ink cover on one of their upcoming issue. Well folks, a video showing the magazine’s cover has just been released, and I must say, I’m quite […]