Just a quick blurb to point out a cool movie uploaded to google video. This one shows the earth and it’s scale in relation to various other planets & stars. The uploader says it as follows: from mercury to vv cephei – update in progress – +highres-version will be available soon This kind of stuff [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Math & Science'
History’s Youngest Mother
December 4th, 2005 · No Comments · Math & Science
Damn Interesting has written a piece on the youngest mother ever recorded, an amazing (and sick, depending on how you look at it) 5 years old: In 1939, a man from a small village in the Andes mountains carried his five-year-old daughter Lina into a hospital in the town of Pisco, Peru. He indicated to [...]
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Ship That’ll Flip You The Bird
November 14th, 2005 · No Comments · Math & Science
Just came across this research vessel that is just too crazy to be believed: Meet FLIP, a very strange piece of oceanographic equipment used by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. FLIP isn’t a ship, even though researchers live and work on it for weeks at a time while they conduct scientific studies in the [...]
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Beauty Products Made From Skin Of Executed Chinese Prisoners
September 14th, 2005 · No Comments · Freedom & Democracy, Math & Science
A very disturbing story pops up on the Guardian about executed chinese prisoners being used for beauty products: A Chinese cosmetics company is using skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe, an investigation by the Guardian has discovered. Agents for the firm have told would-be customers [...]
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Hacking Forced Information To Be Free
August 2nd, 2005 · No Comments · Math & Science
Thanks to some hacker, information about the infamous “10th planet” was released earlier than planned: BOFFINS WHO discovered that there was a 10th planet in our solar system, had been sitting on the news for years until a hacker turned over their servers. Michael Brown, a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology, announced [...]
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Japanese Develop Most Realistic Andriod Ever
July 27th, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Math & Science
It seems those pesky Japs have done it again. This time they’ve developed the most realistic android to date: Japanese scientists have unveiled the most human-looking robot yet devised – a “female” android called Repliee Q1. She has flexible silicone for skin rather than hard plastic, and a number of sensors and motors to allow [...]
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Fractals For Beginners
July 26th, 2005 · No Comments · Math & Science
Kuro5hin has written the first of what will be a whole line of articles on fractals for beginners. An excerpt: In order to cover fractals in any meaningful way, I am going to first examine what lies behind them. The first, and most important, of these elements is “Chaos Theory”, a branch of mathematics that [...]
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Blink And Your Mind “Switches Off”
July 26th, 2005 · No Comments · Math & Science
The BBC reports of a new study with some suprising reults. Namely that certain parts of your brain switch off when you blink: Parts of the brain are temporarily “switched off” when we blink, scientists have found. The team from University College London found the brain shut down parts of the visual system for each [...]
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Study Shows That One Third Of Studies Are Bullshit
July 14th, 2005 · No Comments · Math & Science
You can’t believe anything! CNN reports that one third of all studies are inaccurate to say the least: CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) — New research highlights a frustrating fact about science: What was good for you yesterday frequently will turn out to be not so great tomorrow. The sobering conclusion came in a review of major [...]
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New PI Record
July 2nd, 2005 · No Comments · Math & Science
INQ7.net has an interesting piece on someone who set a new ‘pi’ record by reciting it to 83,431 digits!: TOKYO — A 59-year-old Japanese psychiatric counselor set a world record of sorts Sunday by reciting “pi,” or the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, to 83,431 digits. “I thank you all [...]
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