500km asteroid impact
This is how the world ends… not with a whimper, but a bang.
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This is how the world ends… not with a whimper, but a bang.
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Science… God’s nemesis.
This is a really great find by Ovablastic.
Who needs mind-bending drugs produced in University pharma labs when you have amazing stuff like this?
This video is simply awesome. It slowly zooms in on concrete until it reaches the atoms, while verbally explains what we’re seeing. I wish there were others like it taken [...]
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Two snippets of web lovely for you…
Interactive periodic table:
http://www.touchspin.com/chem/SWFs/pt2k61012.swf
also Wolfenstein… in Javascript. My mind, she is blown.
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I saw the original interview with Wogan all those years ago, but I’ve never seen this. David Icke gets his opportunity to square things from his point of view. Love them or hate them, it’s great TV.
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Jeremy Paxman interviews Paul E. Dennison, inventor of quack science educational program Brain Gym. Hilarity ensues.
Via the Bad Science blog
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Phun is a Master of Science Thesis by Swedish Computer Science student Emil Ernerfeldt. It’s an awesome 2-dimensional physics sandbox, meaning you can create whatever the hell you want and apply some Newtonian goodness to whatever you draw.
I’m strongly guessing Emil Ernerfeldt has read Microserfs
Phun can be downloaded here for both Windows [...]
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And you thought the Catholic mafia were bad. According to this scientician, the moon is over a million kilometers wide. The sun is 1 sixth the size of the earth and it revolves around us. Also, objects look round when viewed from far away because of how the iris perceives distance. And no scientist has [...]
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This day, 105 years ago, Thomas Edison set out to demonstrate the dangers of alternating current (AC) electricity in what can only be described as a completely ‘fucked up’ experiment:
Edison’s aggressive campaign to discredit the new current took the macabre form of a series of animal electrocutions using AC (a killing process he referred [...]
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