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Slo-Mo + Slinky + Science = Sloinkyence
If you’ve never seen concrete proof before that the bottom of an extended Slinky will not drop one single millimeter before the rest of it catches up, well, you have now.
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This Week In Particularly Preternaturally Potent Porcine Products
First up, the Flaming Bacon Lance Of Death, nuff said: Next up, Brit scientists prove bacon sandwiches cure a hangover. Oh, bless the Brits! Lastly, science cannot put a name to the awesomeness of, well, just look: The Boing Boing commenters on the original story helpfully suggest “Noodledogs”, “Cthulhu bits”, “hot doodle”, “doghetti”, “pork calamari”,…
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Mythbusters Mouthpalm. Oh My.
UPDATE: And like that, *POOF*, the video’s gone. Pulled from YouTube. D’oh! UPDATE 2: Thanks go out to Andy II for the working YouTube link. Watch for Adam’s reaction to the following excellent experiment. That was me for, oh, I don’t know, a good two minutes or so after watching this clip: Mythbusters is the…
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Your Daily Dose Of “…What The Crap?”
[With apologies to Scott Johnson, of My Extra Life fame, for his coinage of phrase.] Dear President Obama, what the crap? Obama Considers Zany Climate Engineering Gadgets to Fight ‘The Warming’. Obama is apparently considering using a machine that would suck up smog and shoot it into the upper atmosphere—reflecting the sun’s rays—as a way…
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CPU Vs. GPU, Mythbusters-Style
By way of Extra Life, we have this awesome (albeit scientifically suspect) demonstration of traditional in-order execution on CPUs vs. the multi-core/GPU massively-parallel execution that is the New Hotness: Awesome, just awesome.
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Your Tax Dollars At Work: NASA Redefines “EPIC FAIL”
Sure, it’s no $400 million weather satellite, but NASA’s test of the new Orion vehicle’s parachute system is certainly up there in the “ouch” department — the high speed fall from 25,000 with precisely zero successful chute deployments is downright hilarious to watch. One can almost envision Buster being pulled from the wreckage with all…
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You’ve Been… THUNderSTRUCK!
Whoa. Somebody got ahold of an extremely high-speed camera and captured footage of a lightning bolt, from cloud-borne inception to final strike. Dig it: I love how the initial bolts meander slowly until one of them makes contact with the ground, at which point the entire charge of the strike takes that path in a…
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Philadelphia Metro Residents: Get Thee To The Franklin Institute
For lo, Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination is currently running and is eminently check-out-able. (CrunchGear has pictures to prove it.)
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Man, Pat Sajak Must Be Ticked!
I will say this for working with a bunch of geek fellow travelers: you learn a lot of interesting things during lunchtime conversations, such as the fact that Monty Hall has a probability problem/”paradox” named after him. The problem, simply stated, is that contestants on Let’s Make a Deal! have a 2/3rds probability of winning…