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Category Archives: Science
Horrible Sound
Sound 101 is on a hunt for the worst sound in the world. The site also looks into musical dissonance, the science behind the aural horror of fingernails scraping down a blackboard, and provides an audio mixer to create your … Continue reading
Contemporary gizmos
Whereas the Clock of the Long Now will run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years, the Industorious clock (sic) will probably get cramps on fingers much sooner than that. From the same author, the amaztype: an atractive interface that search … Continue reading
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Scrupulosity
This sounds like a Police album but in fact scrupulosity is “a debilitating form of obsessive-compulsive disorder which takes the form of excessively fastidious religious observance, often in completely arbitrary ways, and fear of not being sufficiently devout or virtuous.” … Continue reading
Pass That Joint
Potheads around the world rejoice: A synthetic chemical similar to the active ingredient in marijuana makes new cells grow in rat brains. What is more, in rats this cell growth appears to be linked with reducing anxiety and depression. The … Continue reading
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Amen
Here’s something for the Intelligent Design followers to chew on: “We should not expect to find in Scripture full scientific accuracy or complete historical precision,†says the Catholic Church. Little do they know there is a third way…
Man Boobs
Gentlemen be warned: excessive alcohol consumption can trigger glandular breast growth in men. Yikes!
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The Moon is made of cheese
“What happens if I try to zoom too close?” – Well, you’ll have to go and find out, won’t you?
Intelligent Design
Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. It was He who created all that … Continue reading
Posted in Amusing, Science
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Googly Moogly Maps
Everybody and their mother is linking to Google maps these days, so who am I not to. If you’ve played around with its “satellite option”, you’ll agree that it’s an incredibly cool toy to mess around with. Then there’s those … Continue reading
Posted in Amusing, Science, Zappa Imagery
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13 Things
New Scientist: 13 things that do not make sense. Surprisingly, this is not one of them.
Posted in Amusing, Science
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Pre-Madonna
Eggcorns are elusively misspelt words or expressions. The Eggcorn Database has a whole bunch of them. Some goodun’s: pre-madonna, comma, black male and of course: internally grateful.
Posted in Amusing, Science
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Online Vermin
Even though KUR is blessed with a readership whose bright intellect is rivalled only by its eloquence *cough*, I’m still bookmarking this just in case.
Posted in Amusing, Pop Cult, Science
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A 100 Years of Relativity
One hundred years ago, a man by the name of Albert Einstein introduced his Special Theory of Relativity, forever changing the way science looks upon reality. To explain that theory in simple terms is not the easiest of tasks — … Continue reading
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