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Where the world discusses science. 76 blogs, 119,508 posts, and 1,851,692 comments.
Make Your Own "Liquid Nitrogen" at Home Do not do this at home. This is for certified scientists only. Do not put your finger in this....
Global Warming Alarmist Conspiracy Emails Hacked!!!11!! The Anthropocentric Global Warming Denialist Community is collectively creaming in its collective jeans over the release of zillions of emails that definitively prove that the whole global warming conspiracy thing was made up. Real Climate has the story:...
Believe it or not: A Black Hole Question! Black holes have come up a couple of times this week, and I've always wondered something. When you fall into a black hole, all sorts of strange things happen. The most well-known one is that nothing -- not even light...
Pets Teach Science: 16 golden retrievers explain atoms (video)
Falling into a Black Hole sucks! Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos -- novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes -- you are beyond doubt the strangest? -Walker Percy When you watch someone fall into a black hole,...
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program...
Seeing Laser Beams Ok, see counselor Troi firing her phaser? You see this kind of thing all the time on film in scifi. Whether it's Star Trek, Star Wars, or pretty much anything else, energy beams fired from future weapons are visible. Usually...
I Can Haz Books! It's not often that I regret having a cell phone that is just a phone, but this is one of those occasions-- I stopped by my publisher today to talk about marketing and publicity, and record a video for the...
lateral thinking on your toes Ethan at Starts With A Bang did a nice post the other day on an old chestnut - why you can't touch your toes if you're backed against a wall....
Atlantis Launch There are not going to be too many more of these:...
Are Black Holes Forbidden Mathematically? In the comments on one of my posts, someone pointed me towards Stephen Crothers, who gives the following argument (in a nutshell) as to why black holes cannot possibly exist: General Relativity is our theory of gravity, which relates the...
Make Lava at Home: Don't try this with your good microwave Do not try this at home unless you are a certified physics teacher. Try not to think about what all the crap is in this guy's microwave. And do wear goggles. The really interesting part is after five minutes. That's where the science starts....
Al Gore and Geothermal There's a little bit of buzz burbling around over Al Gore's scientific goof during a Conan O'Brien interview. Discussing geothermal energy, he said the following: It definitely is, and it's a relatively new one. People think about geothermal energy --...
SI/USGS Weekly Volcano Activity Report for 11/11-11/17/2009 Lots of huffing-and-puffing from volcanoes around the world, all wrapped up neatly in this week's USGS/SI Volcano Activity Report.
Mystery Volcano Photo #15 I'll try to stump readers again with a new Mystery Volcano Photo during this slow week in the world of eruptions.
Look up tonight: Leonid Meteor Shower 2009! Some meteor showers are spectacular, while most are mundane. If you sit around during a typical shower, you might see anywhere from 50 to 100 meteors an hour, if the Moon isn't out. If you take a time-lapse photograph and...
Dorky Poll: How Do You Say That? As every physics-loving dog knows, the idea that electrons behave like waves was first suggested by Loius Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie (the 7th duc de Broglie) in 1923. The proper pronunciation of his surname is a mystery even to...
There's No Cloning in Football Belichick's problem is one that's well known to quantum mechanics. His decision to go for it increased his team's chances of winning, but the actual outcome of the game was still probabilistic-- no matter what he did, the result would come down to chance. And there's no way to get information about probability from a single measurement.
Physics Is Going to the Dogs There's been an independent rediscovery of the notion of using dogs to explain physics, as you can see in this YouTube video of Golden Retrievers explaining the structure of atoms: Emmy thinks she should get royalties, in the form of...
Bloggers at the American Geophysical Union meeting The American Geophysical Union meeting has blogger activities planned.
The Big Deal about LCROSS I thought I should consult you first before I went ahead with my plan to destroy the Moon. -Greg Angelone, via The Straight Dope Last week, scientists from LCROSS announced that they had detected "a buttload" of water on the...
The Physics of White Board This Is A Cool Computer Program - Funny video clips are a click away...
Mystery Volcano Photo #14 So MVP #13 was apparently way too easy, so here's a bit more a challenge (I hope).
Mystery Volcano Photo #13 Take a whack at Mystery Volcano Photo #13!
Kepler Live Pool NASA's planet hunter mission ought to be announcing something at the American Astronomical Society in january, 2010. But what?...
“First of all, let's use the term 'caldera' and get away from using the media-hyped term 'supervolcano', made famous by Hollywood. We are big boys and girls, and can use correct scientific terminology.” Tucker on Mt. Saint Helens: Supervolcano?
Tim Lambert 11.22.2009
PZ Myers 11.19.2009
PZ Myers 11.22.2009
Ed Brayton 11.22.2009
Orac 11.22.2009
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