News has emerged of the latest threat to nature: drug-addled bees, hopped up on crack by crazed scientists. Some bee experts believe that cocaine could have “as devastating an effect on honey bee society as it does on human society”.
The scientists in question are Andrew Barron of Macquarie University in Australia and Gene Robinson of [...]
Young Chinese girl deafened by excessive kissing
A young Chinese woman was left partially deaf following a passionate kiss from her boyfriend.
The 20-something from Zhuhai in Guangdong province arrived at hospital having completely lost the hearing in her left ear, said local reports.
The incident prompted a series of articles in the local media warning of the [...]
Continue reading about You heard it here… Stop that kissing and get off my lawn!
Its not often that a simple act of nature as predictable… and as unpredictable like a Meteor gets caught on tape. Its even rarer when its as spectacular as this.
The Chicago Tribune posted a story about a local girl who decided to find out how tolerant supporters of Obama who was preaching tolerance was. Click to read the story by John Kass (Click read more in case it gets wiped after a short time… ie. not archived)
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Catherine never told us which candidate she would [...]
15:02, that’s it. Second beam all the way round and the LHC is up and running.
about 3 hours ago from web
13:55, the LHC’s second beam is now on its way. about 5 hours ago from web
10:25, 10 September 2008. Historic moment. The LHC first beam has just circulated. Amazing moment. [...]
Continue reading about Large Hadron Collider started… I’m still alive.
Here was a cool video that aguy shot while parachuting and reaching over 900 miles an hour and the speed of sound. The whole time unprotected… but for his suit. And amazing video about something I sorta heard about but didn’t fully understand.
Now, I consider myself an intelligent person. Typos and grammar mistakes aside, I generally know my facts. Or at least I try to make sure I know my facts. But certain things escape me. For example this below story, I would of never thought to second guess the Smithsonian on this subject…
ALLEGAN, Mich. - Is [...]
Continue reading about Smithsonian owns up that 5th grader was smarter…
Fiery explosions, beautiful reactions, and hilarious music videos are great reasons to be excited about chemistry. Wired Science posted 10 of their favorite videos. They entertained me for a while, so I thought I’d share.
…but it’s cheating. They want to drop it from the International Space Station. Besides the Engineering challenges detailed, I’d love to see a video showing it being done, and following it.
For most people, it’s enough to see their paper plane fly for a few feet.
The Japanese, however, want to send one 240 miles. . .through [...]
Continue reading about Paper Airplane going for the distance record…
BoingBoing pointed out that the Wired Science blog posted a YouTube video of a liquid that changes color from clear to yellow to blue over and over again.
In 1973, the spectacular demonstration was perfected by Thomas Briggs and Warren Rauscher, two amazing high school science teachers.Over thirty-five years later, chemists are still trying to fully [...]
