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Animation of a Broken Space Elevator
I have run a few simulations of a space elevator breaking. This page summarizes some results, and gives you access to animations.
disaster  science  simulation  space 
february 2011 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Drinking wine with cheese fondue causes late-night "cheese baby syndrome" [Video]
Have you ever eaten lots of cheese with wine, only to find that you've got a giant, uncomfortable "cheese baby" in your stomach for hours afterward? Now researchers with the British Medical Journal have discovered why. More »
medical_breakthrough  biology  bmj  Chemistry  Fb  mad_science  Medicine  Science  from google
december 2010 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
BLIT - a short story by David Langford
He found he'd been careless, easy in this false twilight and through these lenses: there were tacky patches on his fingers as he re-rolled the Parrot. A few hours on, in thick morning light, the brown women would be playing the wink game.... Jesus, how long since he'd been a kid and played that? Must be five years. The one who'd drawn the murder card caught your eye and winked, and you had to die with lots of spasms and overacting. To survive, you needed to spot the murderer first and get in with an accusation -- or at least, know where not to look.
cyberpunk  hack  fractal  fiction  ebooks  goedel  math  reading  science  sf  scifi 
march 2010 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Huge New Planet Tells of Game of Planetary Billiards | SpaceRef - Your Space Reference
WASP-17 is orbiting the wrong way, making it the first planet known to have a ``retrograde'' orbit.
astronomy  planet  science  backwards  space 
august 2009 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
YouTube - Weird Tape Effect
So where I work I have about a 12" frosted glass barrier on top of my counter for privacy reasons. I found out today that a simple piece of scotch tape will make the opaque glass clear? It was quite strange.
weird  science 
july 2009 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Brower Propulsion Laboratory
The Brower Propulsion Laboratory announces its third full - scale exploration mission, entitled BPL-003 MMM (Moranic Mission to Montana). The project entails retracing the path of an expedition that included the painter Thomas Moran to the Yellowstone region in 1871, only this time using robotic spacecraft.
Moran  Montana  Yellowstone  science  art  robotics  wtf  automatous  performance  space  robot 
june 2009 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
The Secret Museum of Mankind
Advertised as "World's Greatest Collection of Strange & Secret Photographs" and marketed mainly to overheated adolescents (see the 1942 Keen ad, left), it consists of nothing but photos and captions with no further exposition. This was not a book published to educate (despite appearing on some public library's shelves), but to titillate (literally)— it's emphasis was on the female form ("Female Beauty Round the World") and fashion, and it featured as many National-Geographic-style native breasts as possible. But anything lurid, weird, or just plain unusual is fair game. This was a book to gawk at by flashlight under the bedcovers.
mankind  reference  art  museum  ebooks  photography  culture  history  people  anthropology  documentary  strange  secret  world  science 
october 2008 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
That Darn Overhead Projector! | Cosmic Variance
Aside from arguing about the “wastefulness” this particular facility, politically I’m actually surprised that McCain is going after planetariums. People like planetariums.
mccain  obama  election2008  election  2008  debate  science  earmarks  chicago  education  planetarium 
october 2008 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Born To Run | Human Evolution | DISCOVER Magazine
Biomechanical research reveals a surprising key to the survival of our species: Humans are built to outrun nearly every other animal on the planet over long distances.
running  exercise  endurance  ultrarunning  strength  athletics  run  human  anthropology  science  animals  evolution  biology 
september 2008 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Gene Expression: Barack Obama on <i>The Bell Curve</i>
last paragraph ^_^ 1994 HIGHLIGHT: Commentator Barack Obama finds that Charles Murray, author of the controversial "The Bell Curve," demonstrates not scientific expertise but spurious political motivation in his conclusions about race and IQ.
politics  science  obama  intelligence 
september 2008 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Toward a Type 1 civilization - Los Angeles Times
subtext of sociopolitical implications Kardashev scale; does capitalism require perpetual growth?
futurism  Kardashev  singularity  history  sustainability  theory  politics  free_trade  economics  science  technology 
july 2008 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Schneier on Security: Sunglasses that Hide your Face from Cameras
I want to see what this looks like on camera; maybe the video is fake though. should work against lowlight ir cameras
fun  patents  privacy  science  writing  funny 
july 2008 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Adwaita - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Adwaita (meaning "one and only" in Sanskrit) (c. 1750 – March 23, 2006) was the name of a male Aldabra Giant Tortoise in the Alipore Zoological Gardens of Kolkata, India. He was the oldest living animal in Kolkata.
anthropology  science  turtle  eternal_life  reptile  history 
june 2008 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
The Great Tantra Challenge
Sanal Edamaruku, the president of Rationalist International, challenged India’s most “powerful” tantrik (black magician) to demonstrate his powers on him.
religion  india  science  skepticism  atheism  magic  funny 
march 2008 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Odds of Dying - NSC
The National Safety Council has been compiling and reporting on injury data every year since the 1920s. The table below was prepared in response to frequent inquiries to the Council concerning the odds of dying from or being killed by a specific incident
statistics  death  reference  odds  dying  science  health  gambling  dead_pool 
november 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
SIZED MATTER ‽ Perception of the Extreme Unseen
An exhibition by Jan-Henrik Andersen of subatomic particle energy and matter at the Art Gallery at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois from June 6th to August 26th 2005.
art  cosmology  science  physics  quark  abstract 
october 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Virga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In meteorology, virga is precipitation that falls from a cloud but evaporates before reaching the ground.
weather  earth  science  rain  wikipedia 
july 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Technology Review: Eating Radiation: A New Form of Energy?
In a bizarre alternative to photosynthesis, some fungi "eat" radiation--with the role of chlorophyll taken by melanin, a chemical also found in human skin.
amazing  biology  energy  fungus  imported  mushrooms  nuclear  media  technology  science  radiation  news  research 
june 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Huggins Pitch: A dichotic pitch
Huggins pitch (see Cramer and Huggins, 1958, reference below) is a faint pitch that can only be heard via stereo or binaural listening.
acoustics  bizarre  science 
may 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Comet May Have Doomed Mammoths - Science - RedOrbit
There's a new extraterrestrial suspect in the mysterious, highly debated disappearance of the woolly mammoth some 12,900 years ago. A team of two dozen scientists say the culprit was likely a comet that exploded in the atmosphere above North America.
science  space  extinction  megafauna  north_america  comet  mammoth 
may 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Cordyceps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"parasitic fungus that kills mostly insects and blossoms out of their heads? and the blossom is different depending on the host organism? AGHDSGKA CRAZY"
via:alanapost  science  fungus  wtf  wikipedia  parasite  pwn 
may 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
How many atoms of Jesus you eat every day@Everything2.com
Somewhat off topic, transubstantiation means that eventually the earth's entire biomass will be made out of Jesus. Assuming the 2.035*10-8 percent change stays constant, it will be (100 / 2.035*10-8) = 4.91 billion years until that happens.
bizarre  food  funny  math  religion  chemistry  science 
may 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Wired Magazine: Drug Test Cowboys: The Secret World of Pharmaceutical Trial Subjects
"I'm thrilled to come across a notice on craigslist looking for subjects to demonstrate the impact of the club drug GHB on driving ability; I imagine myself going to raves and then speeding home, a clinician riding shotgun."
article  health  hypocrisy  interesting  medicine  science  test 
april 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Comparative Sex-Specific Body Mass Index in the Marvel Universe and the "Real" World.
This study compares the mean and normalised distribution of the Body Mass Index of women and men in the Marvel Universe, and with women and men in the "real" world.
article  articles  book  comic  comics  fun  funny  geek  health  science  women  gender  body 
april 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Minazo
"Major screensaver action with giant departed Merzbow muse and Nippon's last beloved male elephant seal MINAZO"
animals  education  nature  pictures  science  noise  japan  merzbow  mammals 
april 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Mount Chimborazo - BuzzFeed
Spent a Month in Ecuador for only $1045!
science  travel  ecuador  todo  summer 
april 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Cheap Truth
In the early 1980's SF author Bruce Sterling, under the pseudonym "Vincent Omniaveritas", edited a series of one-page newsletters titled Cheap Truth.
cyberpunk  fiction  history  literature  publishing  science  toread  scifi  brucesterling  sf 
april 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
WorldwideFlood.com
cool, but somewhat bad science of the biblical flood
bible  flood  interesting  read  reading  science  christian  religion  christianity  noah 
april 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
USNO Clear Sky Clock
At a glance, it shows when it will be cloudy or clear for up to the next two days.
chart  color  science  weather  space  visualization 
april 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
The Daily Dish: Drugs and Toxicity
One way to measure the dangers of various drugs is to examine how toxic the drug is at various levels. Can too much kill you? And how much is too much? Here's an interesting article on what we know scientifically about the matter.
drugs  science  health  marijuana  politics  alcohol  law  article  information 
march 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
FirstScience - Beer in Space
Having studied aerospace engineering as an undergraduate, she began to wonder: How would yeast that perform fermentation fare in orbital free fall?
beer  space  science 
march 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Exposing The Copernican Deception
This savior--this man who rescued the ruling theoretical science establishment from its potentially lethal enemy (The Truth!); this savior who advanced a theory of Relativity which seemingly ruled out forever any challenge to the Communist/Kabbalist physi
astronomy  earth  science  cranks  crazy  fundies  antisemitism 
february 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Michael Wesch - Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology - Kansas State University
Currently Wesch is launching the Digital Ethnography working group at Kansas State University to examine the impacts of digital technology on human interaction. The first outcome of this work was a short video called "Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us.
anthropology  media  ethnography  innovation  web2.0  science  film  education  higher_education  people  cultures  digital 
february 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
TV programme reveals the REAL Frankensteins | the Daily Mail
As revealed in a National Geographic documentary to be screened later this month, the creation of the two-headed dog was the first step in an astonishing race by Cold War scientists to achieve the seemingly impossible - the first ever human head transplan
amazing  article  coldwar  history  medicine  mind  neuroscience  news  science  technology  brain  weird  interesting  russia 
january 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
valuca
Lenticular clouds and many other strange kind of clouds!
amazing  photography  clouds  weather  nature  photos  science 
january 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Goblin Shark
The Japanese fishermen who caught the first specimen of Mitsukurina in the "Black Current" off Yokohama called it tenguzame, which means "goblin shark."
biology  science  sea  sharks  fish  oceanography 
december 2006 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
How to Calculate Pi by Throwing Frozen Hot Dogs - WikiHow
As long as you have your calculator, you could just press the "pi" key.
article  food  howto  fun  interesting  science  pi  math  education 
november 2006 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
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