For thousands of years, people have wondered how the builders of Stonehenge were able to maneuver and place the massive rocks into position.
Wally Wallington, a retired construction worker from Michigan, may have just (singlehandedly) found the answer.
You can get more information at his official site.
Vladimir Bulovic, a professor at MIT, gives us a simple demonstration of how OLEDs work. By running an electrical current through an ordinary pickle!
“Gimme a Hug”, a documentary by the Protect The Sharks Foundation, won the Palm De Bronze at the 35th Mondial De L’image Sous-Marine film festival in Antibes, France.
The documentary shows sharks exhibiting some markedly unexpected behavior, quite contrary to their image as blood thirsty, mindless killing machines.
You can order the documentary here.
[via The Presurfer]
Michael Shermer, editor of "Skeptic Magazine," brilliantly reimagines the science of creation, as seen through the lens of “Intelligent Design”.
To convey the logical absurdity of trying to squeeze the round peg of science into the square hole of religion, I penned the following scientific revision of the Genesis creation story. It is not intended as a sacrilege of the poetic beauty of Genesis; rather, it is a mere extension of what the creationists have already done to Genesis in their insistence that it be read not as mythic saga but as scientific prose. If Genesis were written in the language of modern science, it would read something like this.
Full transcript is here.
[via Metafilter]
The coolest science video of the week.
What would happen if you dropped a magnet through a copper tube?
There are no special effects involved, nor is it a visual trick. The phenomenon can be explained by Lenz’s law, formulated by Russian physicist Heinrich Lenz in 1834. Here is a slightly longer video of the same phenomena.
Coolest science video I’ve seen in a while.
I now have a new found respect for cuttlefish, the lesser-known cousins of octopuses/octopi.
[via Pharyngula]
The smooth nylon shrimp (Heterocarpus Laevigatus) employs a particularly efficient chemical defense mechanism to survive in the harsh depths of the Pacific ocean. The shrimp temporarily disorients would-be-predators by discharging a large quantity of bioluminescent liquid from its mouth.
[via the ever-interesing Pink Tentacle blog]
