Here’s something to cheer up the team behind Apple’s notorious mapping fails: a South Pacific island shown on both Google Maps and old-school atlases turns out not to exist. Sandy Island is shown as lying around 80 percent of the way along a line from the Australian coastal town of Cairns and the French-governed island […]
Tesla constructed a 142 foot high metal mast in Colorado Springs. From this he could shoot out bolts of man-made lightning over 100 feet long. Tesla created the first remote control by using it on a toy boat. Demonstrated in 1898, it was considered largely useless. In his later years, Tesla became increasingly eccentric. He […]
Do you know of any other tricks to tell if someone is lying online or not? Let us know in the comments section below! [Hack College]
Okay, I’m going to be the first to admit it. There’s quite a few things I don’t like about Pinterest. I’ve written about it elsewhere, but I think I may have given the wrong impression. It’s not that I think Pinterest sucks. On the contrary: I think it’s awesome. I spend an inordinate amount of […]
Could you imagine your life without the Internet? If the massive information network went away from one day to the other, how do you think people would react? The worst part for me would be the loss of access to all those awesome cat videos on Youtube. That would be totally awful. ;) Via: OnlineEducation.net
By Meredith Placko Contributing Writer, [GAS] If you haven’t checked your daily nerd news, you may have missed a bit of controversy going around that involves cosplay. SHOCKER. Comic artist Tony Harris recently went off on female fans over on his Facebook, calling them out as not being real nerds, who prey on men in […]
The origins of autism spectrum disorders has long been under debate; everything from childhood vaccines (now debunked) to prenatal care to environmental agents have been researched, and while the causes of autism are perhaps varied and unpredictable, and research is still incomplete, the best working theory involves assortative mating. Backing up the idea that specific […]
I don’t know about you, but as a guy who works around 40 hours per week on the Internet, I can’t help but feel a little concerned about this. According to this infographic, the areas of my brain responsible for speech, memory, motor control, and other important areas could be 10 to 20% smaller than […]
Yep, definitely the chart I would have up at home when I have kids. [Source: Time for Hugs! | Via I f* love science]
So the gender debate rages on. Buzzfeed recently posted an article that summarised the results of a research project led by sociologist Eliane Ecklund. The survey involved asking 3,455 physicists, from graduates through to tenured professors, asking them as to why women were so underrepresented in their field. They had to select one of the […]