By Jimmy Rogers Contributing Writer, [GAS] [SFW- Warning] This article is work safe, but the links are probably not. It appears that once again, the Land of the Rising Sun has taken something completely normal and made it into hot anime chicks. This phenomenon is called “Moe” and it actually means taking inanimate objects and making […]
Can happiness be bought? To find out, author Benjamin Wallace sampled the world’s most expensive products, including a bottle of 1947 Chateau Cheval Blanc, 8 ounces of Kobe beef and the fabled (notorious) Kopi Luwak coffee. Check him out in the following video presentation… his critique may surprise you.
By Will Sullivan Contributing Writer, [GAS] If you missed this month’s usually spectacular Geminid meteor shower, due to the full moon’s brightness—or the Perseids back in August—you may get a relatively rare chance to check out another meteor event in the early morning hours of Saturday, January 3, 2009: the unpredictable Quadrantids. Unlike the Geminid […]
By Will Sullivan Contributing Writer, [GAS] This is especially for the cosmology wunderkinds among us geeks; hey, it takes geeks of all kinds! Among “the rest of us,” we merely semi-brilliant folk, Einstein may be most famous for his General Relativity theory, which is mind-blowing enough; however, he also famously regretted to himself and the […]
In the following video presentation, Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert presents research and data from his exploration of happiness — sharing some surprising tests and experiments that you can also try on yourself. The premise of his current research — that our assumptions about what will make us happy are often wrong — is supported with […]
By Jimmy Rogers Contributing Writer, [GAS] As a scientist (or at least a scientist-in-training), I tend to think of the physical world and human curiosity as eternal bedfellows. As long as there are other worlds to ponder, be they huge or microscopic, we will do what we have always done: “Seek out and explore new […]
If you’re a member of Generation Y, chances are you can do a lot of different things with your cell phone: text, email, surf the web, pay for merchandise, take pictures and movies — oh, and even talk to people in real time! But have you ever used it to test your blood for diseases? […]
By Jimmy Rogers Contributing Writer, [GAS] I just discovered this and all I can say is WOW! Click the image for a larger version. Yes, you are reading that image correctly. It’s a list of everything that is awesome, organized on the periodic table. In fact each major type of awesome has its own property-based group. […]