the demon core Post Source: softcraze.com Posted: Nov 24 2008 08:52:28
In 1945, physicist Harry Daghlian was working on a 6.2 kg (14 lb) spherical mass of plutonium at the Los Alamos laboratory. He was stacking bricks of tungsten carbide around the plutonium core when he noticed a nearby neutron counter signaling that the addition of the final brick would make the assembly supercritical. Daghlian immediately withdrew his hand … and the brick slipped ont...... [Show More]
When Pingu the baby penguin had to be separated from its family because its greedy brother ate all of its food, zookeepers were afraid that it was lonely … so they got it a penguin doll!
‘The cuddly penguin toy is something for the chick to cosy up to and be comforted by - a surrogate family for the time being.’ Pingu is living in a snug den made out of foam matting and towels ...... [Show More]
The frog that breaks its own legs and grows claws. The beetle that sprays a jet of boiling fluid at predators. The fish that engulfs its enemy in a thick casing of slime. The ant that explodes. These are just a few of the incredibly unusual ways animals have evolved to defend themselves against predators. If you enjoyed learning about the strangest endangered animals on earth , be prepared for ev...... [Show More]
How does worm charming trick earthworms to rise up to the surface? Researcher Ken Catania of Vanderbilt University found the answer: worm charmers create vibrations similar to that of the worms’ predator, the mole:
"Hundreds of large earthworms rapidly emerged from the ground for a distance of up to 12 metres from the vibrated stake," says Catania. The closer they were to the sta...... [Show More]
Last year, a Japanese scientist won an Ig Nobel prize for the achievement of extracting vanilla flavor from cow dung . This year, some Japanese scientists were recognized for their interesting study on the intelligence of unicellular amoeboid organisms:
Toshiyuki Nakagaki, associate professor at Hokkaido University, professor Ryo Kobayashi of Hiroshima University, and Atsushi Tero, a researche...... [Show More]
Wow, it’s not even an Onion article, nor is this April 1st. From Reuters: City uses DNA to fight dog poop . (Are they serious? Really?)
An Israeli city is using DNA analysis of dog droppings to reward and punish pet owners.
Under a six-month trial programme launched this week, the city of Petah Tikva, a suburb of Tel Aviv, is asking dog owners to take their animal to a munici...... [Show More]
Today’s Neatorama and Hobotopia’s Caption Monkey game brings you this strange photo via Scribal Terror . Funniest caption will win an original Laugh-Out-Loud Cat comic by Adam "Ape Lad" Koford.
Contest rules are simple: place your caption in the comment section. One caption per comment, please, but you can enter as many as you can think of.
For inspiration, check out Ad...... [Show More]
Now this is the kind of science I really like: How useless is a Chocolate Teapot? From The Naked Scientists:
You have heard the saying, but it is meaningless unless you know exactly how useful a chocolate teapot actually is. We try to find out how thick the walls of a chocolate teapot would have to be to let you brew tea… [continue]
The site includes photos, a video, and look, ther...... [Show More]
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Following the Terminator story , we go to this groundbreaking invention by professor Kevin Warwick of the University of Reading and colleagues: a robot with a living brain!
Meet Gordon, probably the world’s first robot controlled exclusively by living brain tissue.
Stitched together from cultured rat neurons, Gordon’s primitive grey matter was designed at the Un...... [Show More]
Well, it’s been well over three weeks since our last “Cast Iron Around the Web” update. And fellow black iron aficionados, that’s WAY too long, but the cast iron revolution is ROLLING. People everywhere are cooking in cast iron and talking about cast iron as this post CLEARLY demonstrates. This update represents almost all of the cast iron-related news and recipes posted n...... [Show More]
magnetic fields Post Source: blog.petaflop.de Posted: Aug 17 2008 22:42:15
«The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries . All action takes place around NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries . Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent ‘whistlers’ ...... [Show More]
an etruscan pin Post Source: www.myownthoughts.com Posted: Aug 12 2008 21:31:14
...2008/08 /etruscan- safety.htm l" 2; Beautiful gold safety pin of a lion stalking birds from the 7th century BC.
Aunt Miri would have made something much like this.
Dielli...... [Show More]
Darned scientists and the things they do in the name of science! Can’t they leave a poor copepod doin’ its bidnis alone?
The marine biologists on the Galathea expedition intruded on the privacy of this copepod - all in the name of science, mind you - as it … went poo! Link [embedded YouTube clip]...... [Show More]
eel bacio Post Source: www.dustbury.com Posted: Aug 10 2008 22:22:39
Trini was a big fan of a now-defunct ( except in Norway ) soft drink called Surge .
She will probably not, however, be interested in this :
Sky News reports that the Japan Tobacco Company has launched a new ’fizzy’ drink called Unagi Nobori or ’Surging Eel’. The drink went on sale this month during the country’s eel-eating season.
The yellow-colo...... [Show More]
A pair of bloomers once owned by Queen Victoria had just fetched £4,500 at an auction:
The knickers have a 50in (127cm) waist and date from the 1890s, which indicates the monarch had a large girth as she approached her old age.
It was thought the bloomers would fetch £500 but a Canadian buyer spent £4,500 on the pants which are monogrammed with VR for Victoria Regina.
Link - via ...... [Show More]
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