Tag: science
How To: Make Paper Invisible
What if you got a letter in the mail, and you know it involves you, but since it is not addressed to you, you can't open the envelope? Okay, you can't help yourself, you need to take a peek. There is a way for you to peek inside, to make paper invisible, without having to open the envelope with the ...
Touchable Holograms Are Now A Reality!
It is about time that we get some news about this whole holographic world that we keep seeing in movies. We've seen it in Star Wars, Minority Report and of course Star Trek. However, until now, we haven't really been able to master the science of creating working and realistically looking hologram ...
It’s Official – Twitter Knows When We Are Happy or Sad!
Here is yet another reason to embrace our beloved Twitter (as if we needed another reason, right?). Scientists have now discovered that the overall mood of America can be determined on Twitter.
The time-lapse video below shoes the mood in the States as inferred using over 300 million tweets over ...
Silly Putty 2.0 Has Arrived – It’s Magnetic & It Thinks
I loved playing with silly putty when I was a little girl. Back then, in the prehistoric ages, my parents actually read an old fashioned newspaper. My sisters and I would have fun imprinting the silly putty with the news.
Well, all that has changed. Introducing... the silly putty of the future ...
Can You Make A Rocket From Bacon? – Find Out Here
I know it sounds like a cliché, but I love bacon. I could eat bacon at every meal. I like my bacon crispy, even burnt. My son likes his bacon squishy. Between the two of us, we can tear through a couple pounds of bacon in no time flat.
I think that is one reason why I'm so amused with this vi ...
Insects Embedded With Technology – Science Fiction Inspired Art
I'm having a hard time deciding if this is really creepy or kinda cool. Remember the guy that took dead flies and put them in fun positions to photograph? If not, you can check out some crazy pics of that here.
Mike Libby from Insect Lab does something similar, but a little more diabolical. He ...
This Is The Geekiest Thing You’ll Read All Day
Warning: If you don't have a pocket protector with at least 12 pencils, don't even attempt to read this article. This is proof that there is a secret language for super geeks that keeps us ordinary geeks out of the club.
I have no idea what any of this means, but I'm pretty sure it has somethin ...
Wanna Be Superman? Scientists Say It’s Closer Than You Think
A lot of us dream of being Superman, or in my case, Wonder Woman. And, I'm not just saying that because she has big boobs and a 14-inch waist, no, there is just something ultimately cool about being so strong you can beat all the odds.
Thanks to a new scientific breakthrough, we can all start de ...
New Wikipedia Service: Printed Books With Customized Content
Wikipedia hasn't gone a year without funding issues, and every now and then it is faced with the seemingly unavoidable shut down. So far it has stayed afloat, and it keeps giving us valuable and free information about pretty much everything. The fight for funding has led Wikipedia to look into new ...
For A Better Marriage – The Fart Absorbing Blanket
Everyone knows that once your spouse starts freely letting the silent and deadly ones go in the night, the marriage is on a torpedo ride south. Want to save your marriage? Now you can order this fart diffusing blanket and you'll be home free. Wow, I never knew keeping a marriage together was this ...
How To Capture Lightning Like Thor! With Science!
Have you ever wondered how those little 'lightning in a box' things you see at random gift stores, internet stores, and fellow geeks houses are made?
Maybe you can make one to impress your friends, or give to your mom to distract her from the fact you still live in her basement (shh we won't tell ...
The Rock, Paper, Scissors Secret Weapon for Winning!
My son and I play rock, paper, scissors almost everyday. I'm not sure how it happened, but somehow, the winner of Rock, Paper, Scissors always gets to make the big decisions in my house. I even studied the psychology surrounding that game and wrote an article about the secrets to winning - 6 Secre ...
Human or Robot? Can You Tell The Difference?
After watching Terminator and Total Recall, we all knew this was coming. It really is no surprise. This article is about yet another completely creepy invention from Japan; however, this time, it's creepy in a cool advanced technology and science kind of way.
Do you remember Hiroshi Ishiguro? ...
How To: Make Your Brain Bigger In Only 3 Months
This is going to blow your mind, so I’ve linked all my sources at the bottom of this article because if you see it, you might believe it. This was a hot topic back in 2004, and then it went away for a while, but now with a new study from Oxford University, its back in the news again.
Up until re ...
Best of XKCD – The Greatest Nerd Webcomic
Ok, so if you are a nerd or geek of any kind then you have probably seen an XKCD or two. Well I am a die hard early adopting computer science geeky programming nerd - and have probably seen each and every one of them on the days that they are released.
But odds are if you haven't seen these at al ...