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Category Archives: General Science
How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy
Or, Toxoplasma gondii and the Human Brain
This is the article I mentioned in class. It may scare you pretty well. It did me.
How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy
Thanks Ed!
The Triangle Problem
Science Club loves Optical Illusions. This one is a classic. Last year, William K. gave a great explanation of how this works at a club meeting. So I found this online explanation and thought I’d share it.
The Craziest Sci-Fi Fantasies That Got Closer to Reality This Year
From Wired Magazine
The Craziest Sci-Fi Fantasies That Got Closer to Reality This Year
Is Punishment or Reward More Effective?
Okay, so I’m on a Veritasium kick this break. This is a complex, but interesting point, and one of the reasons that methodology of any scientific test must be scrutinized.
Merry Christmas
Okay, I’ve never seen a rocket launch like this one. But I want to…
No info on where this is (somewhere in Asia obviously) or what this is, but it’s fun.
Update: So now that the Internet has discovered this video I find that it’s from the 2014 Bamboo Rocket Festival in Yasothon, Thailand. Fun Stuff.
The Biggest Scientific Breakthroughs Of 2014
At least according to the website io9
The Most Radioactive Places on Earth
Veritasium has another wonderful video.
(note the rental car he’s driving at the Trinity Test Site. These Youtubers are making good money.)
Glacier Mice
Amazing, I had no idea these occurred.
Glacier Mice: A Rolling Stone Does Gather Moss
And on a similar vein…
What Happens When…
You fire a soccer ball at 50 mph out of the back of a pick-up truck doing 50 mph? I explain this each year in E.P.S. but now, thanks to Mythbusters, you can see for yourself.
To the observer on the side of the road, it appears as though the ball just drops, and it does, relative to that observer.
Excellent BBC Documentary on “What is Reality?”
Some of the most current questions in Physics. I especially like the theory we may be living in a hologram. (note: it is an hour long)
What is Reality BBC from Neeraj Pandey on Vimeo.
Now This is Fun
Optical Illusions
The subject of our last Science club meeting, I promised I’d post these videos…
And this one…
Fun stuff!
Stuff You Can Find While Surfing
How cool is this?
Boy gifts ancient Clovis point to Smithsonian
How to Make Magnetic Slime
Looks like fun, and an excellent addition to any EPS Quarterly Portfolio.
Science and Dreaming
How interesting! Someone asked me in class recently about the movie “Inception” and that lead to a short discussion of dreaming. The always entertaining theoretical physicist Michio Kaku brings us up to date on the science of dreams.
Camera Obscura
I was discussing how to safely view a solar eclipse Wednesday and the subject of a camera obscura came up, so here is some info on the subject.
First, the Wiki page…
And an video from National Geographic on how a room-sized one can be made…
An Illustration of Scale
Mind blowing…
Ah! The Old Water Trick
To find out how this works check out the short explanation at ScienceDump
Is the Universe Just a Hologram?
I posted once long ago about this theory. It seems that the two most important theories in Physics today cannot both be true, unless…
This is all some sort of hologram.
We are about to find out if our universe really is a hologram
What the Heck are Quantum Computers?
Okay, this one may make some peoples head hurt, but a lot of my students are interested in Quantum Mechanics. That’s the Physics of sub-atomic particles. Pretty interesting stuff.
Some Technologies Could Prove Disastrous
Very thought provoking article. What do you think?
10 Horrifying Technologies That Should Never Be Allowed To Exist
Stonehenge Was an Important Site for Much Longer Than Originally Thought
The Scariest Way Civilization Could End
Because it may be the most likely…
Another Carrington Event Inevitable
Here is the Wiki page on the Carrington Event…
Thanks Ed!
image: NASA
Back to Work, Time to Post
Hope everyone is enjoying their summer, I’ve taken some time off from posting, but here we go again. A lot has been happening so here’s some of the stuff I’ve been following…
Weird Stuff
The Siberian Giant Holes…
Odd Cause of Gaping Siberian Holes Possibly Found
I’ve always wondered, I love the stuff (go Chipotle)…
Why 10% of the Population Hates Cilantro and the Rest Doesn’t Know Any Better
Now this is an adventure…
Wyoming cave with fossil secrets to be excavated
Nice to see a government admitting they just don’t know…
Chile Releases Official Study on UFO Photos
Supersonic Earthquakes, gotta love that!
‘Sonic Boom’ Earthquake Shatters Expectations
The early Earth…
This Is What The Earth Looked Like When It Was Only Half A Billion Years Old
(note .GIF link didn’t work on my computer here is another link with the actual paper…
Widespread mixing and burial of Earth’s Hadean crust by asteroid impacts
Depressing Stuff
Don’t believe the hype: 5 reasons to be pessimistic about climate change