Rapper B.o.B. recently admitted he thinks our planet is flat. Here is Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s response to this absurdity. “Listen, B.o.B, once and for all. The Earth looks flat because: 1) You’re not far enough away at your size, and 2) Your size isn’t large enough relative to Earth to notice any curvature at […]
We all know soda isn’t good for you, but how bad is it really? ASAP Science takes a look at how nasty Soda can be on your body. [AsapSCIENCE]
Yep, you read that headline right. This one is a must-watch, nerds. Caltech’s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter in association with Trouper Productions bring you a chess match for the ages: Paul Rudd vs Stephen Hawking in a game of Quantum Chess, narrated by Keanu Reeves. The game is real and the stakes are […]
Youtube channel “Real Engineering” explains the science behind why airplane windows are round. The problems caused by cabin pressurization didn’t develop until the introduction of the first commercial jet powered aircraft, The De Havilland Comet. It entered service in 1952 and initially proved to be a massive success, but just one year into service catastrophe […]
About 66 million years ago, a terrible extinction event wiped out the dinosaurs. But it wasn’t the only event of this kind — extinctions of various severity have occurred throughout the Earth’s history — and are still happening all around us today. Borths, D’Emic, and Pritchard give a quick history of mass extinctions. [Ted Ed]
Just in time for Jonas to hit the east cost with a blizzard, The folks from Reactions released a video about how snowflakes are formed. Check it out! [Reactions]
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who marked day 300 of a historic year in space on Jan. 21, 2016, shows off another fascinating feature of life in microgravity. Kelly used two paddles with hydrophobic, or water repellant, features to pass a sphere of water back and forth. Scientists use the microgravity environment of the space station […]
The folks from Vouchercloud.com created this interesting infographic taking a look at “Future Technologies we can Expect from Films” and researched just how soon we could be seeing these make an appearance in the real world. [Source: Vouchercloud.com]
The record for the largest discovered prime number has fallen for the first time in nearly three years. The new largest runs to 22 million digits, five million more than the previous record. The number in question is 274,207,281-1 (known also as M74207281) and, as is often the case these days, was discovered through the […]
Statistics are persuasive. So much so that people, organizations, and whole countries base some of their most important decisions on organized data. But any set of statistics might have something lurking inside it that can turn the results completely upside down. Mark Liddell investigates Simpson’s paradox. [TED Ed]