I recently found this documentary series Hjernevask (Norweigan for “Brainwash”) and the first episode is well worth a watch:
It delves into the heart of the biological influences that guide the genders in a really thorough way. It also shows that in the quest for social progress, “social science” propagandism can sometimes take over critical thinking and hard scientific research.
This is really cool, scientists use acoustics to make objects levitate
Scientist find that dogs not only can sense the earth’s magnetic field, but also poop in a North-South alignment.
At least if you’re gearless and lost in the woods with your dog you can patiently wait for Fido to take a dump and find your way home.
Sadly, this is probably only apparent in large data sets. I’ve been checking every time my dog blasts a dook and I’ve seen no promising results.
This shit (no pun intended) reminds me of the other animal mystery that said that cows always eat facing north
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7575459.stm
I guess that the cows at my family ranch didn’t get the memo
A short cartoon about angular momentum. Show your friends!
Travel from the Himalayas to the Big Bang.
A video by the American Museum of Natural History.
I don’t get that part about the “true brightness” of the Sun.
Yes! After centuries of anecdotal observation, we finally have visual confirmation of the mysterious ball lightning!
Anybody here ever seen ball lightning? I once saw an electrical discharge that looked an awful lot like it.
Fox News post articles on science?
Real hadouken :tup:
Try not to give them too much credit. They’re reporting on a story that’s appeared in numerous locations. Their only great success is in managing not to bring God into it.
Or blaming Obama.
Lightning gonna start taking selfies of teabagging its passed out roommates.
Well you’re one of the lucky ones, it’s considered an extremely rare phenomenon. I’ve always attributed its existence as the cause of the belief in spectres and other superstitions in the olde days.
Under what circumstances did you witness something similar?
A severe electrical storm during a rafting trip in South Bend, IN. Everyone was huddled under the awning of a building, and the lightning strikes were close enough to hit the rooftops of the buildings nearby. One hit a transformer a couple blocks away and it released a ball-shaped discharge in about the same motion as a drop of water letting go of a spigot, except upward. It seemed pretty big and pretty fast, but it was too far away to get a good idea of it. It only lasted for about a second. Weirdest thing.
I was always skeptical of ball lightning, but I never doubted that whatever I saw was probably the same or similar to whatever people were seeing when they reported sightings of ball lightning.
Hawking’s paper:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5761
Qs and As on the paper:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24937-stephen-hawkings-new-theory-offers-black-hole-escape.html?page=1#.UuLGFP16hcx
^^If Astrophysicists come up with a theory that combines Relativity and Quantum Mechanics from this black hole stuff, that would be awesome.
For now though I gotta pick up the pieces of my brain from the floor. Ugh…
I was reading that article earlier and it was
such amaze! much thought! great body control!
But seriously, I never thought there was an actual singularity, but to see it shown to be some kind of blob thingy makes much more sense. We already knew stuff escape along its axis from the so named black hole “jets”.
This photo needs no explanation, just accept that we’ll never been this awesome.
https://scontent-b-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1/1619359_10152167834188604_556630829_n.jpg
He could get his leg up over his head in those days. For us, it’s weirdly impressive; for him, it was grad school.