For those of you who have always wondered about Antarctica’s real size, NASA has released this informative picture via Twitter comparing the size of the continent (5.4 million sq mi, or roughly 14.0 million sq km) in relation with the size of the United States of America, less Alaska and Hawaii, of course.
Remember the auto-tuned song featuring Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking we posted last month? Well the song was so popular that its creator, John Boswell, decided to create another one, and this time, he included Richard Feynman, Neil deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye, to sing along with Sagan. Check it out.
When is selling 595,000 copies of a game in three weeks a disappointment? When it’s the Beatles edition of Rock Band. The sales make it the third best-selling game of September, beating out fellow debutante Guitar Hero 5, which just fell short of the 500,000. The Beatles game was up in second place for total […]
What you’re about to see is absolutely mind blowing: Three robots working in tandem to execute one of the most amazing feats of robotic precision I’ve ever seen. Check it out.
Ladies and Gentlegeeks, behold! Here is what could possibly be the ultimate in geek fashion: The BSOD belt! Currently priced at $16.95 at Geek Gone Chic, you too can now sport your very own BSOD error message for all to see. The belt fabric is made out of a cotton/acrylic blend, and the clam style […]
Playing sound effects both pleasant and awful, Julian Treasure shows how sound affects us in four significant ways. Listen carefully for a shocking fact about noisy open-plan offices.
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] Following a horrific murder in 2007, an Indiana man, Ian Clark, was convicted by a jury and sentenced to life without parole. But the case recently came up for appeal, and the sole issue? Whether the trial judge was right in allowing a MySpace post to be admitted as […]
Have you ever wondered what really happened to the unlucky “I” that gets flattened in the original Pixar Intro? Well Collegehumor gives you an extended look at the poor letter’s fate in their latest parody.
What if Scorpion of Mortal Kombat took Mario’s place in Donkey Kong? [Via Neatorama]
The world will end after being hit by the planet Nibiru on 21 December 2012. That’s a nice story, but it’s not true. And a senior scientist at NASA’s Astrobiology Institute says so. David Morrison (pictured), writes a regular column with the wonderfully Onionesque title Ask an Astrobiologist for the Astronomical Society of Pacific newsletter. […]