derek | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 02 2006 | science, cool, titanium dioxide
I can't wait for 2011.
derek | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 16 2008 | absolute zero, science, nova, pbs, tv
Very cool. Get it? I amuse me.
Quoted: In this companion Web site to the NOVA program Absolute Zero, learn about the theoretical upper limit of temperature, find an article by author Tom Shachtman on the cultural impact of artificial refrigeration, read an interview with physicist Luis Orozco on ultracold Bose-Einstein condensates, browse a list of notable temperatures ranging from absolute zero to the hottest theoretical temperature in the universe, and more.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 03 2007 | video, popcorn, science
click to playCool.
Quoted: This color high speed video(zoomed in from original 1K x 1K resolution sequence) shows a close up of popcorn popping on a hot plate. Recorded by the Schmitz ...
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 22 2007 | video, science, fire
click to playVery cool ... just remember, kids -- smoking kills!
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 12 2007 | ship, video, science
click to playCool!
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 01 2006 | mythbusters, tv, science, breaking @#$%
Caught a couple of episodes of this show on Shiwani's recommendation -- great stuff.
Quoted: In a subtle and goofily educational way, the hosts of “Mythbusters” commit mayhem for science’s sake.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 09 2006 | science, pentecostal, neuroscience, speaking in tongues
A neuroscientific look at speaking in tongues -- interesting.
Quoted: Scientists have used brain images to peer into the minds of those who speak in tongues.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 15 2006 | pregnancy, science, news
Quoted: A Harvard biologist argues that a mother and her unborn child engage in an unconscious struggle over the nutrients she will provide it.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 28 2006 | quantum physics, science, cryptography, movies
click to playHigh level cartoon demonstrating the myster of quantum physics, which forms the basis of quantum cryptography, one of the coolest things ever ...
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 20 2006 | george washington, presidents, science, news
Re-creating George Washington using modern technology.
Quoted: But historians say the one-dollar bill isn't worth much when it comes to portraying our first president. Jim Rees, executive director of historic Mount Vernon points out that George Washington and the artist who painted him didn't much like each other.
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