- Last month, the pendulum Leon Foucault used in 1851 to demonstrate the rotation of the earth fell to the ground from its broken cable. Now it's been used to demonstrate another physical phenomenon! Gravity!
- As the cartoon points out, unless you've got a control group for your death ray project, you're not a mad scientist! You're just a mad engineer! (And, as the story points out, there are an unfortunately large number of mad engineers.)
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Random crap:
- Here's a DIY for a light-triggered water gun to repel cats from places that they ought not be. I'm not even going to bother, because the keyboard is the #1 naughty place for my cats, and the whole water thing is obviously not good. Mainly, though, no matter where I installed it, I just know I'd end up getting way wetter than the cats.
- List of cognitive biases. Basically, your brain thinks it's smarter than you. Actually, it probably is, because you listen to it anyway.
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Facepalm-inducing crap:
- Nevada + politics + health care + chickens
- An excellent recount of the background behind the now-thoroughly-debunked (unless you are, pardon my French, a fucking idiot) "vaccines cause autism!" scare, in comic book form. (I had thought Wakefield, author of the paper, was merely an incompetent scientist. This turned out to be one of those times where Hanlon's razor does not hold true. He's a greedy, unethical bastard.)
- A, um, broadcasting "decency" watchgroup (what are they watching, considering the kinds of things they think indecent?) is protesting the title of William Shatner's new show "$#*! My Dad Says." That's how it is actually spelled, really, And CBS, the show's network, is pronouncing "$#*!" as "stuff." But apparently 4 punctuation marks == obscenity.
- That low gas tax probably ends up costing Americans even more in car repairs due to inadequate road maintenance (which is funded by said low gas tax.)
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