Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Various internet goodness

Here's a bunch of stuff the interwebs has to offer:

First we have the pizza necronomicon, or as I will forever call it: the necro-om-nom-nomicon.
Unfathomable, soul-destroying evil never tasted so good.

Up next is Madame Hillary Clinton being fucking awesome.  You're welcome.


And lastly is a wonderful pride tribute to Alan Turing, a brilliant mathematician, computer scientist, and creator of the Turing Test, who would have 100 on Saturday.  Though it is often said he committed suicide, there has been several people who said that might not have been the case.


Monday, May 16, 2011

3 2 1 takeoff to Squidville!

I'm going into space (and then dying, but let's not talk about that part)!!!



Maybe it's just because I'm reading Kraken right now, but this story is really interesting. Baby squids that look like Super Mario Bloopers are joining the Endeavour team up in space to test how microbes react to microgravity (the Bobtail squid isn't a microbe, but it has BFF bacteria that it has a symbiotic relationship with).

I wish you would see more news coverage from the big media sources about this stuff. Without informing the public and getting them interested, we have less and less kids interested in science. Science is cool, kids! Pick up a test tube today!

Friday, April 22, 2011

Candy Corn for Easter Weekend



Check out this video from Science Friday: Astronaut Don Pettit used up the crews entire supply of candy corn to show us how soap works. My knowledge of soap comes from half listening to an episode of Beakman's World when I was eight-years-old, so this quick video totally expanded my mind by giving me such words as hydrophobic. If you want to nerd out even more, check out this link, which will go further into how soap works and quiz you on it afterwards.