“A guy walks into a bar and the bartender asks what can I get you? The guy responds for me h2o please, his friend say I’ll have h2o too , the friend dies…….”
— mayorfl’s comment on “Accidental Reaction - Periodic Table of Videos”.
June 02, 2012, 3:50pm
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Case For Sunscreen of the Day: This man is 69 years old.
He drove a truck for 28 years.
The premature aging from sun damage to the left side of his face is extensive enough to warrant a feature in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Trucker or not, don’t forget your sunscreen.
[gizmodo]
I’m always paranoid about getting a tan on half my face when I drive but it never passed my mind to consider the other effects of prolonged sun-light exposure.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4y30jcfVY1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
Case For Sunscreen of the Day: This man is 69 years old.
He drove a truck for 28 years.
The premature aging from sun damage to the left side of his face is extensive enough to warrant a feature in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Trucker or not, don’t forget your sunscreen.
[gizmodo]
I’m always paranoid about getting a tan on half my face when I drive but it never passed my mind to consider the other effects of prolonged sun-light exposure.
June 02, 2012, 1:16pm
An hourglass that mesures time using bubbles instead of sand. Watch the video
Sold out. :(
June 01, 2012, 9:45pm
Like attracts like?
Everything you thought you knew about electrostatics is probably wrong.
Make two metal spheres positively electrically charged, bring them close together, and what happens? They’ll repel one another, because like charges repel – right?
Wrong. According to physicist John Lekner at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, they will most probably attract one another, violating the intuitions of basic physics. The counterintuitive result was published today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A1.
Science! In New Zealand!
Read the full article!
May 24, 2012, 7:29pm
This is my new favorite blog: a 9 year old grades her school lunches.
It’s going viral and will probably be ruined by adults soon.
It seems like she writes it and her parents edit it. A simple, sweet idea. I like it.
May 23, 2012, 7:54pm
Mapping the Wonder Inside Every Cell
Behold the biochemical pathways of the cell. For decades, these wall charts have adorned the hallways and laboratories wherever biochemists are at work. They are at once both reference and art.
The version pictured above (click here for the holycraphuge version) is state of the art, a subway map of interacting pathways, intersecting reactions, and a road map for the journey to make any building block our cells need. Each node is an enzyme or product, separated by color into metabolic subdomains. You really must head over to KEGG and play with the interactive version, where each dot comes alive, an interactive chemical structure.
I’m also a big fan of Gerard Michal’s legendary wall charts of yesteryear. Watching the evolution in design from his 1974 version to a later 1993 map, his layouts are chock full of vintage German aesthetic.
May 14, 2012, 12:31pm
14 Ways to Say Nothing with Scientific Visualization
An article on what not to do with data visualisations that I found rather amusing.
April 16, 2012, 1:53am
