Category Archives: Science!
Relativity Safe After All
And the missing 60 nanoseconds reinforce relativity instead of disproving it. It turns out the GPS satellites are in a separate reference frame from the experiment and once you account for the effects of relativity between the frames, the difference … Continue reading
Your “OMFG WOW!” of the day
“The left clip is a segment of the movie that the subject viewed while in the magnet. The right clip shows the reconstruction of this movie from brain activity measured using fMRI. The reconstruction was obtained using only each subject’s … Continue reading
ZOMG! Cell Phones Don’t Cause Cancer!
“…no convincing evidence of any cancer connection.” Despite a recent move to classify mobile phones as possibly carcinogenic, the scientific evidence increasingly points away from a link between their use and brain tumors, according to a new study on Saturday. … Continue reading
Curves
Whether it’s radioactive half-life or an Instalanche, the curve looks the same. Math is awesome. Too bad public schools do their best to ruin it.
Hammer and Feather
One of my favorite videos from the Apollo days.
Is The Science Settled?
I found this great post via Neatorama. What you thought you knew about Dinosaurs is probably wrong. Next time someone tries to tell you the science is settled you can laugh in their face. Science is never settled.
Another day, another disaster to scare you with
Now its a killer solar flare. Like global warming, it’s a “might happen” disaster. Anything to keep your attention off the REAL looming disaster, the one that is sure to happen and there is no avoiding it: The economic collapse … Continue reading
Clueless in Geneva
Hello scientists! I’m thrilled that you’re capturing and studying antimatter, but you really need to watch what you say or you wind up sounding stupid. Hangst downplayed speculation that antimatter might someday be harnessed as a source of energy, or … Continue reading
OMG! LASERS in 1800?
Sorry, no. It’s just sloppy writing. In a classical interferometer, first developed in the late 1800s, a laser beam in a vacuum hits a mirror called a beamsplitter, which breaks it in two. The two beams travel at different angles … Continue reading