It starts with a tickle in your throat that becomes a cough. Your muscles begin to ache, you grow irritable, and you lose your appetite. It’s official: you’ve got the flu. It’s logical to assume that this miserable medley of symptoms is the result of the infection coursing through your body — but is that really the case? Marco A. Sotomayor explains what’s actually making you feel sick.
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So yeah, this could go on pretty much indefinitely…
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Want to do more than talk to your refrigerator and control your lights with your phone? Hank Green explains how close we are to the smart home that can do everything for us.
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See ferrofluid falling on a magnet filmed at 1000fps. How does the science of falling ferrofluid droplets mimic speghettification while falling into a black hole? Find out in this video from the always amazing Physics Girl.
All of Stan Lee’s movie and TV cameos so far, exept for the one in Thor Ragnarok.
Let the movies make the final countdown for us! To be played at 23:58:50
Happy New Year 2018 everyone !
Steve Ritchie is something of a legend in the video game world. For most, he’s the prolific pinball designer responsible for creating more machines than anyone else in pinball history. But, for those in the know, he’s also the godlike voice behind the announcer in the classic game, “Mortal Kombat II.” After voicing a number of unsavory characters for his own pinball machines, Ritchie began to perfect the deep, booming register that would later make “Mortal Kombat” so iconic. And while Ritchie spent the majority of his career designing and developing video games, we’ll never forget his seminal contribution to our ‘90s nostalgia.
Budgies are masters of mimicry. Not only do they imitate human voices, but they also imitate household sounds. For the first couple of years we had Kiwi, his cage was near a coat closet, so he heard coats zipping up every morning. It wasn’t until a couple years later that we realized the noise he was making was actually a zipper noise! Now, you can make a zipper noise and he will repeat it back. It’s incredible!
In her eggs-hibit series of pictures, artist Michele Baldini used the white and yellow part of an egg to create edible works of art. Check ’em all out below (After the jump! The pictures might take a few seconds to load!)
