By Natania Barron Contributing Writer, [GAS] I have a confession to make: I’m not that into horror flicks. It’s not that I’m a total wuss, necessarily, but I happened to have been raised in a household where viewing such material was simply off-limits. So I didn’t really get the opportunity to watch anything gory or […]
NASA has published a report (PDF) detailing more than 100 experiments carried out on the International Space Station between 2000 and 2008. Most of the research was based around the priority of making extended time in space safer and more comfortable for astronauts. However, some of the findings may also have uses on Earth. For […]
Made by flickr user xsomnis, these delicious-looking raspberry brain cupcakes with french vanilla cream cheese frosting will make the perfect addition for that upcoming All Hallows Eve party. I don’t know about you, but even though I’m no undead, I still feel a powerful urge to go bake a dozen of these right now and […]
This is the kind of thing I dreamed of doing as a kid. Okay, it’s the kind of thing I still think about doing now. I’m not sure how I missed this earlier, but thought it would be worth a post for those of you who might not have seen it yet. The flight was […]
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]