- Log in to post comments
More like this
I'll bet this foolish school district would also have a problem with a kid deciding they were Muslim and wearing a Burka to school.
In all seriousness though I'm sure this kid did this just to be an obnoxious teenager and push some peoples buttons, but come on?! who is the school district to…
It is friday, and we will be topical today.
So, Oh Mighty iPod, Oh Omniescent One...
Are there planets orbiting main sequence stars, within 100 parsecs of the Sun, which have abundant carbon based life producing biosignatures we can detect and recognise within the medium term, if we get the…
What makes earthquakes? Although there are many causes, including volcanoes, the most common thing that causes them are tectonic motions, which also cause tsunamis. But as valuable as it is to understand other planets in our solar system and in other star systems, sometimes it's important to…
I don't understand French nearly well enough to understand the explanation in this video, but I was amazed at what the physical world can do when I saw this video.
(Video courtesy of Wimp.com.) What's going on here? Well, you've got:
a series of bar magnets on the bottom,
a ceramic cylinder,…
Although the story appears genuine and interesting...
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/52914
...I wonder about that photo.
Thanks for that link, a truly fascinating story.
It reminded me immediately of the famous story "Eleven Blue Men" by Berton Roueche, which was originally published in the New Yorker magazine back in the 1940s, then later collected and published in his book, The Medical Detectives. Roueche was widely praised for his ability to expalin medical mysteries in detail while still making them understandable to the layman. I highly recommend the book.
You can read the first several pages of "Eleven Blue Men" on Amazon's preview page for the book.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0452265886/ref=sib_dp_pt/002-4378061-95…
(Javascript enabled browser required)
no the pic is real.. it's actually an old family picture from my personal collection. I'm actually not that blue- more of a purple...
ok I'm full of shit - the picture does look a little suspect but I actually posted it because i thought the picture was cool - the story was just gravy.