Like many six year olds with a MacGyver mullet I learned how to ride a bike when I was really young. I had learned a life skill and I was really proud of it. Everything changed though when my friend Barney called me 25 years later. He had a challenge for me. He had built […]
Tag Archives: science
APL Modular Prosthetic Limb
Watch it in action from 2:20. Related: “The future is happening, there’s just nobody paying attention”
Vacuum
Brian Cox visits NASA’s Space Power Facility in Ohio to see what happens when a bowling ball and a feather are dropped together under the conditions of outer space.
Tabletop Whale
Tabletop Whale is a tiny blog run by a designer in Seattle. It’s updated every two to three weeks with a science themed infographic, chart, or illustration. Tabletop Whale →
The Visual Microphone: Passive Recovery of Sound from Video
The Frequency of Humanity
Every day on Earth, an estimated 371,124 people are born and 154,995 people die. When you ask Wolfram Alpha about these rates, the scientifically inclined site returns a curious corresponding quantity: the frequency in hertz. If you subtract the death rate from the birth rate, you get a net rate of 216,129 new people a […]
Comic Sans Boson
Using Comic Sans (except in comic strips) is like doing physics in Imperial units. Alastair Houghton in reply to Professor Brian Cox as the CERN presented their Higgs Boson findings set in Comic Sans