Old Spice / Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot Mashup [Animated Gif]
Enjoy this awesome mashup of Isaiah Mustafa’s Old Spice commercial and Carl Sagan’s famous Pale Blue Dot lecture. [Via Imgur]
Category Archives: Science
How Smoke Detectors Work [Video]
Hey Geeks! Our pal the engineer guy is already back, and this time, he’s explaining how smoke detectors work. Check it out: [Via TDW]
What Pi Sounds Like
Listen to Youtube user michaeljohnblake as he interprets Pi to 31 decimal places. [Source]
Disney’s “Up” House Re-Created in Real Life [Video]
For National Geographic Channel’s upcoming show “How Hard Can It Be?”, a team of engineers constructed a simple house structure and lifted it into the air for more than an hour by 300 weather balloons. Check it out! [Via]
Scenes from Antarctica [Pics]
Today on The Atlantic, a beautiful photo essay on Antarctica, featuring not only the requisite scenery and penguins, but also images of the South Pole Telescope, radar images of ice sheet formations, SCINI (Submersible Capable of under Ice Navigation and Imaging) vehicles, the famed Shackelton’s whisky, and my personal favorite, researchers assembling the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. […]
Awesome T-Shirt: Schrodinger’s Cat
Another awesome t-shirt by our pals at SplitReason.com. Oh, and speaking of t-shirts, have you guys ever checked out our Geeks are Sexy-branded shirts? :) [Schrodinger’s Cat T-Shirt @ SplitReason.com]
It’s not the… that kills you [Pic]
It’s not your final speed that kills you, it’s the force of your sudden change of momentum. [Via]
Clocks for Math Geeks
Hey math geeks! Check out these awesome clocks, on which each hour is marked by a either a math problem or a symbol representing a certain value. Math Pop Quiz Clock Get the conversation going the next time the MENSA meeting is at your place. Made of lightweight black metal with a matte finish Measures […]