500 Rounds Per Minute Nerf Vulcan Gun Hack

In its original version, the Nerf Vulcan is already one of a hell of an office war weapon, but when slightly modified with a few extra battery packs, it quickly becomes a rather frightening instrument of destruction. Check it out: To accomplish this, the guys from Manapotions increased the voltage inside the Nerf Vulcan’s firing […]


Einstein Proven From the DARK SIDE

By Will Sullivan Contributing Writer, [GAS] This is especially for the cosmology wunderkinds among us geeks; hey, it takes geeks of all kinds!  Among “the rest of us,” we merely semi-brilliant folk, Einstein may be most famous for his General Relativity theory, which is mind-blowing enough; however, he also famously regretted to himself and the […]

Exploring the frontiers of happiness

In the following video presentation, Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert presents research and data from his exploration of happiness — sharing some surprising tests and experiments that you can also try on yourself. The premise of his current research — that our assumptions about what will make us happy are often wrong — is supported with […]

A Bit of Free Sci-Fi: “The end of Science”

By Jimmy Rogers Contributing Writer, [GAS] As a scientist (or at least a scientist-in-training), I tend to think of the physical world and human curiosity as eternal bedfellows.  As long as there are other worlds to ponder, be they huge or microscopic, we will do what we have always done: “Seek out and explore new […]