Rejoice, Geeks! It’s the International Year of Chemistry, according to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). How can you celebrate? Well, DO SCIENCE, of course. Get some resources from the IYC website or carry out your own experiments. After all, “we need to teach our kids that it’s not just the winner […]
Remember Theo Jensen’s AMAZING kinetic walkers? Well geeks, some people got the brilliant idea of building a similar machine, but instead of powering it by wind, they used a hamster ball to make it go forward. Check it out: Brilliant concept, isn’t it? [Source]
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February 3, 1966: The first spacecraft to land on any non-Earth planetary body, the Soviet Union’s unmanned Luna 9 reaches the Moon. Equipped with radio and television capability, heat control system, power sources and a radiation detector, the payload touched down in Oceanus Procellarum (“Ocean of Storms”). Immediately thereafter, the four-panel seal opened and Luna […]
Geek hero Carl Sagan’s moving Pale Blue Dot monologue over Halo Reach footage. If this isn’t the convergence of all things awesome, I shudder to think what might be.
The following video shows the view we would have of various planets from Earth if they’d orbit our world at the same distance as the moon. Check it out: [Via]
Two political science professors claim a strong majority of US biology teachers either don’t advocate the theory of evolution, or flat out promote either creationism or intelligent design. The research came from Michael Berkman and Eric Plutzer of Penn State. They looked through the results of a wider survey of 926 biology teachers in public […]
A Rube Goldberg machine is, of course, a machine engineered to perform a simple task in a very (or very, very, very) complicated way. I’m not sure I would recommend any of these “how to” videos for efficiency’s sake, but they sure are fun to watch. How to Unroll Toilet Paper: How to Creme an […]