Monday Evening Fun: Introducing Google’s New Opt Out Village
Don’t want to use Google’s services anymore? Then there’s only one thing left for you to do my friends: Move to Google’s brand new opt out village. Check it out:
Category Archives: General
Shamed embryo ‘expert’ accused of scientific and financial fraud
A South Korean scientist who faked the production of a human embryo from cloned material is facing four years in jail over the incident. Hwang Woo-Suk has been charged with embezzlement and with accepting funds under false pretences. That relates to the US $2.25 million he received from public funds to carry out the studies. […]
Mirror Reversal Problem
In the following video, deceased (1988) American physicist Richard Feynman amuses himself with an old puzzle – why do mirrors seem to switch left and right, but not top and bottom?
Hilarious iPhone Gun Rampage
Anyone who has ever got stuck in the traffic for several hours during a hot summer day will definitely relate to this guy. Warning: video contains strong language.
Happy Birthday, Unix!
This month Unix celebrates its 40th birthday. Though for being over the hill, the operating system just seems to be getting better with age… or at least it’s definitely not become obsolete. In 1969, Ken Thompson, a researcher at Bell Labs who had previously been working on a larger operating system project when AT&T pulled […]
Bikini-Clad Babes Reading Star Wars
Yes, you read that headline correctly, no need to rub your eyes. The following video features 3 bikini babes reading some parts of the Star Wars script for your, *ahem*, viewing enjoyment. Hey, It’s Star Wars… it’s bikini-clad girls… so uuuh, it has to be awesome… right? :) If this isn’t enough for you, there’s […]
Dr. Michio Kaku: From Universe to Multiverse
In the following video, Dr. Michio Kaku talks about the multiverse and parallel universes. If you liked the clip featured in our “Visualizing the Big Band” post, then you’ll definitely want to watch this one as well.
Songsincode: Popular Songs Written in Computer Code
Many people, well, geeks, are participating in a Twitter meme where lyrics to well-known songs are rendered in computer code. If you don’t get it: songsincode tries to display either a title of a song or part of its lyrics (as some songs are more known by the refrain than their title – for example […]
Gamer Movie Trailer
Gamer is an upcoming scifi movie from Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor featuring an online multiplayer game called “slayer” in which players control real human beings as game characters. The film is set to be released on September 4, 2009.
Visualizing the Big Bang
We made this video about the Big Bang because the theory is important and amazing, but often misunderstood. This video was produced without any funding from any outside sources. It was put together with donated creative time from a group with a desire to further public cognition of science. Science has many amazing stories to […]