The BBC has a really interesting section today about time zones.
Time zones? Interesting? How?
Well, you don’t really think much about time zones, but there are interesting stories behind… more
Here’s a Fun Nature Fact of which I never really thought before I happened upon this article while looking for items for my day job: Sharks poop. Okay, we kinda… more
The Kinect is inspiring a lot of hacking — getting it to work with a PS3, for example — but some folks are seeing it as something that can enable… more
Wow. NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day is always good, but this one… it’s a series of photographs taken by the Cassini spacecraft as it approached Saturn. It is not… more
This kinda slipped past everyone last week, but a study by Birmingham Science City in the U.K. found that a lot of people believe… well, they believe a lot… more
Would you like your meals to sound like the Doctor Who theme, or maybe “Good Vibrations”? Here’s your chance: Someone’s created forks that double as mini-theremins.
No, really, the EaTheremin,… more
Here’s everything you’ll ever need to know about kissing, including stats and science (calories burned, bacteria, and more), in a handy video of less than two minutes from GOOD Magazine:… more
Over at Discover Magazine, Chris’ friend Phil Plait (aka @badastronomer) points us to this pretty astonishing detailed photo of the sun by Alan Friedman at his Averted Imagination site. The… more
Yes, someone replicated the balloon-lifted house from Pixar’s “Up.” For real, or at least a reasonable facsimile thereof:
It’s from an upcoming National Geographic Channel show called “How Hard Can… more