May 9, 2012
We take some questions from Redit’s ‘Ask Science’ section and attempt to answer some questions. Can you catch up on your sleep after you’ve had a few short nights? And how do sleep cycles work?
Side Show
May 5th 2012, the ‘Super Moon’ brings out the strangeness in our intrepid hosts. The moon is currently in perigee. I totally bunged up the video when I shouted out...
Read MoreQuantum & Cosmos
Nope, the bulk of destruction from a Nuclear blast comes from the initial shockwave and the cavitation caused by the blast. In a vacuum the energy from the blast would dissipate...
Read MoreHuman Sciences
Can you measure the human eye with megapixels, and if so how many megapixels is the human eye? Yes and no. There are about 120 million rods (black and white receptors) and about 5...
Read MoreFast Forward
The Internet has brought us as many or more resources since the PC. woot for that. All that automation of web applications has made us more efficient. The powers of our new world...
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Former NASA Climate Change Deniers – May 9th, 2012
May 9, 2012
A group of 49 former NASA employees have appealed to NASA to stop making climate claims in the media that the group of 49 claim are not scientifically supported. NASA publicly stated that they don’t make conclusions based on the data, they just collect and disseminate it. NASA further invited the group of 49, to participate in the scientific process and...
Project Steve – May 8, 2012
May 8, 2012
Project Steve: Is a satyrical list poking fun at a list released earlier this year from the ‘Discovery Institute’. The Discovery Institute, as well as many other creationist organizations have lists that contain the names of 700 scientists that don’t believe in evolutionary theory. Project Steve highlights this comically low number of...
Oldest Red Blood Cells found in Crusty Ol’ Otzi
May 7, 2012
Scientists using an electron force microscope have found the oldest intact human blood cells in Otzi (the oldest murder victim found with evidence). At some 5,300 years old, the blood represents the oldest sample we’ve found to date, looks surprisingly fresh and could lead to advancements in the study of Egyptian Mummies and criminalistics....
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