A short segment of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos show that talk about how Eratosthenes (276 BC – 194 BC), a greek mathematician, geographer, poet, and astronomer, discovered that the Earth was round using simple observations. He then goes to prove that the Earth is round using a simple piece of cardboard. [carlsagandotcom]

Irish doctor Maitiu O Tuathail was sick and tired of hearing people claiming that masks can lower your oxygen level, so he decided to do something about it. He hooked himself up to an oxygen monitoring machine and then wore 6 masks one on top of the others. Watch. Gets some of our amazingly geeky […]