There is a lot of hub-bub about a neutrino that was witnessed moving faster than the speed of light, a feat which was deemed impossible by Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. The science community is working overtime to figure out if the experiment can be repeated and confirmed, as it would have a major impact [...]
One third of Americans believe in Astrology, which suggests that the position of the stars at your birth provide insight into your personality and even the course of your life. Any regular readers ought to know I tend to stick with the scientific process when it comes to wishy-washy information, so it’s no particular surprise [...]
Yesterday the thought occurred to me that I don’t really know how a battery works. Whatever goes on inside that little cylinder is a mystery to me. Now that I know the secret, it seems even more amazing! First , let me get the words right. A battery is actually defined as a set of [...]
Hey, it’s been a while since the previous LSNED story. I hope you’ve been learning some interesting facts on your own, but here we meet again to scratch our collective foreheads and raise a glorious chorus of “Huh, neat.” The topic du jour, for no particular reason, is resonant frequency. The classic image of the [...]
Last night I lay awake trying to force myself back into a proper diurnal schedule. It’s 4 AM or so and I find myself laying on my back, throwing a white balloon towards the ceiling and watching it glide back down, gracefully curving in whatever direction the nozzle is pointing. (due to aerodynamics, I suppose) [...]
Hysteria, and particularly the act of promoting hysteria, ranks pretty high on my pet peeves list. As such, I have a distaste for FOX news. Here’s one such headline they offered up in January: Scientists Not So Sure ‘Doomsday Machine’ Won’t Destroy World Since knowledge immunizes fear, let’s take a closer look at understanding this [...]
At the conclusion of yesterday’s story, the Hamburg sandwich (aka: hamburger) had just began it’s rise to fame at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis. At the same event another famous food was born… the ice cream cone. Not ice cream itself, mind you, just the cone. Apparently the guy at the booth ran [...]