Good luck getting through the weekend without having Haddaway’s “What is Love” stuck in your head and bopping your head back-and-forth…..
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Great Scott, Doc Brown!! A TIME MACHINE in IRAN?!?
It looks as if that 1981 DeLorean DMC-12 with plutonium that would supply the 1.21 gigawatts of power to the flux capacitor that I’ve saved up for won’t be necessary. Iranian scientist Ali Razeghi is the managing director of Iran’s Centre for Strategic Inventions says that he created a time machine called “The Aryayek Time Traveling Machine”. Well, it’s KINDA of a time machine because it’s only limited to taking you to the future. Well, it won’t actually bring you to the future, per se, but it rather brings the future to you, and Razeghi says that using complex algorithms in his invention can “predict five to eight years of the future life of any individual, with 98 percent accuracy”. Hmmm… Read the rest of this entry
Cornell’s Amazing Science Island of Manhattan!
Manhattan has something very interesting to look forward to in the next few years. Roosevelt Island will be receiving a state-of-the-art engineering campus extension of Cornell University. Nowadays, it is becoming near impossible to forget this tiny strip of an island named after one of two of the most awesome U.S. Presidents in history that lies between Manhattan and Queens (F.Y.I., it’s named after Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a.k.a., “American Ironsides,” a.k.a. “Mr. New Deal” a.k.a “Senor Got-Us-Out-Of-The-Great Depression,” a.k.a “Our Fearless WW2 Leader).
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Get The Party Started…WITH SCIENCE!!!
I guess this might prove that Principal Mahzar from “A Goofy Movie” wasn’t THAT crazy with the science slumber party idea; though I’m too old for the whole slumber party thing. For more fun science-related things and stuffness, follow @RichardWiseman on Twitter for more quirky psychology,i.e., “Quirkology”.
Want The Perfect Christmas Tree? Germany Plans to Clone You One
Nowadays, we have a variety of selections involving what type of Christmas tree to get and put in our living rooms. We can choose from purchasing and/or chopping down your own real tree, buying a life-like artificial tree (green or silver), a basic cardboard cut-out, or even some tech-inspired ideas (trees made from spare car parts, old hard drives, flexible OLED panels, and a crew of quadrocopters stacking boxes; thanks Engadget). But Germany wants to offer a new method for selecting a Christmas tree, and it involves altering the genetic code of a popular local fir and cloning perfect specimens of it. Yes, Germany is about to go all “Jurassic Park” on Christmas trees! Read the rest of this entry
A Harry Potter “Invisibility Cloak” is Almost Real (Less Magic, More Carbon Nanotubes)
OK Harry Potter fans: does the phrase “I solemnly swear I’m up to no good” ring any bells. If so, then you’re already pretty familiar with the invisibility cloak, and I’m sure you’ll be happy to know of the real-life-existence of the cloak. With the utilization of carbon nanotubes (rather than magic), university researchers have found a way to make objects seem to “magically” vanish by using similar principles on the existence of mirages. Read the rest of this entry
Autonomous Plane from MIT Makes a Parking Garage Into A Slalom Course
Have you ever flown those remote-controlled airplanes and helicopters indoors? If so, you might remember how it may have taken a while to learn the controls properly to get your flying device going forward fast. That, and learning how to avoid any and every obstacle locating inside your house. Thanks to the plane designed by the Robust Robotics Group at MIT, we may in fact have finally found an exception to that. Check out the video after the break. Read the rest of this entry
University of Utah Researchers Create ‘Spintronic’ LED: Brighter, Cheaper & Eco-friendly
Question! Have you ever hear of spintronics? No? Well, it is the technology that exploits both the intrinsic spin of the electron and its associated magnetic moment, in addition to its fundamental electronic charge, in solid-state devices. There. You’ve learned something today. Now, I told you that to tell you this: a group of physicists at the University of Utah are applying spintronics in a way that could eventually make HDTV screens look even sharper than they do now. Read the rest of this entry
Jason Voorhees Killed Episode 3 – The PractitioNERD, Episode 2.5
After some technical mishaps, this week’s abridged version of The PractitioNERD will be the first of many smaller, more frequent videos, as explained above. Read the rest of this entry
PSU Developing Bandages That Dissolve Into Sugar Post-Healing
Penn State University’s Department of Food Science have worked utilizing an electrospinning device to stretch fibrous strands from a solution of biodegradable food-starch. After using the solvent to dissolve the starch into fluid, the long strands are then spun and then can be woven together like textiles—an application that could potentially include the creation of napkins, tissues, paper-like products, and even medical dressings, such as gauze and bandages. Read the rest of this entry
Sooooo, the “Racism-Curing” Pills Are Real?
I don’t know if I should be ecstatic at the thought of the perfect, happy world that would be able to eliminate all types of hatred and negativity, or frightened at the notion of a medical drug affecting the brain so much to cause such a result. Hmmmm, what to think; what to think…
Get a 3D-Printed Jaw So You Can Eat Again
Remember children, if you do not take care of those ol’ chompers, you’ll have to live with badly conditioned teeth, gums, numerous surgical procedures and battling the evil disease of GIN-GA-VITIS!!! Or…..you could always get yourself a new pair of the old incisors, canines, premolars, and molars from a freaking printer!! Last year, an 83-year-old woman in Belgium had her entire lower jaw replaced with a 3D printed replica.
It Turns Out That Piranhas Are Pretty Chatty Creatures…
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I believe that it has become common knowledge that piranhas (a.k.a, the Hannibal Lecter of fish) are nasty and vicious little creatures, but a group of scientists have published in the Journal of Experimental Biology that piranhas (in particular the “red-bellied” type) are able to talk and communicate with each other. As a matter of fact, they use three sounds, and each one means a particular and distinct thing.
Piranhas use one sound that is described as a bark used while scaring off and intimidating rivals, a second one resembles a drum-like beat used while they are chasing each other, and the remaining sound resembles a croak used while they attack one another. In the case of the latter two sounds, those usually occur when the fish are fighting each other for sustenance. It turns out that the fish produce the sounds by vibrating their swim bladders at a rate of 150 times per second. According to Eric Parmentier, the leading research scientist on the study representing the University of Liege, Belgium, he states that “eventually, if we understand the behaviour that’s associated with the sounds, we might be able to listen to the sea and explain to fishermen: ‘Now’s not the best time to start fishing’.”
So I raise a “Thank you” toast to Science for making that “Piranha 3D” movie make more sense now.
However, I still refuse to watch it again or buy it, though…
[Thanks to the BBC and The Journal of Experimental Biology]
Antibacterial Stainless Steel Developed; KILLS GERMS DEAD!
Say goodbye to seeing this on a regular basis (if your one of those lazy people who apparently DON’T KNOW HOW to wash or clean dishes); I mean, it is cheaper and it saves more water (which saves $$$ on your water bill) to hand-wash dishes than to use a dishwasher. Ok, sorry; my rant is over.
