Hans Rosling’s famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport’s commentator’s style to reveal the story of the world’s past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done before – using augmented reality animation. In this spectacular section of ‘The Joy of Stats’ he tells […]
For this experiment, you’ll need a little bit of dish soap, some food coloring, and milk. That’s it! Now, you too can make your milk “come alive.”
For those of you who don’t get it, please enlighten yourself and read this. [Source: NFC]
“A Wave of Reason” is the seventh installment in the Symphony of Science music video series. It is intended to promote scientific reasoning and skepticism in the face of growing amounts of pseudoscientific pursuits, such as Astrology and Homeopathy, and also to promote the scientific worldview as equally enlightening as religion. It features Carl Sagan, […]
The United States Department of Defense has put money into airborne snake research. But sadly it doesn’t involve hiring Samuel L. Jackson to help train the Air Force against unexpected passengers. Instead the funding, which comes from the DoDs Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (which is known for backing some pretty unusual research), went to […]
“Those worlds in space are as countless as all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the Earth. Each of those worlds is as real as ours. In every one of them, there’s a succession of incidence, events, occurrences which influence its future. Countless worlds, numberless moments, an immensity of space and time. […]
The E. coli bacteria doesn’t get a great press. Even though it’s often harmless, and can even be beneficial to its host, all you ever hear about it is when it causes food poisoning. That’s so unfair: what about its Sudoku skills? That may seem like the strangest introduction you’ll ever read, but it’s true: […]
Yet another study has been produced showing that video gaming has potential medical benefits. The new research, carried out at the University of Rochester, looked into gaming’s effect on the processing of visual information. In particular, it examined the ability to pick up on a specific image within all the visual detail that falls into […]
In the same vein as the “unlimited energy” machine, here’s the best and cheapest way to fix Earth’s global warming problems. [Via 9gag]
Last Friday, Daniel Radcliff was on The Graham Norton Show where he sang Tom Lehrer’s uber geeky “The Elements” song. Oh, and Mr. Norton, even though you have a great show, I still say “shame on you” for using our content without crediting us. [Via]