The Physics of Fred Flintstone’s Flaming Feet
This post was originally published on Scientific American I hope that the father of the “modern Stone Age family” has …
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Science in Aggregate: Week 16
I have dug through the Internet this week and uncovered all this science/pop culture goodness. You can find the thousands …
What Mushroom Clouds Can Reveal About The Waco Explosion
Last night, a fertilizer plant in Waco, Texas caught fire and exploded. The energetic rupture shook the earth for miles …
Science in Aggregate: Week 15
I have dug through the Internet this week and uncovered all this science/pop culture goodness. You can find the thousands …
Could You Actually Build BioShock Infinite’s Floating City in Real Life?
In my first for io9, I take a look at what you would need to actually float a city, as …
The Plane That Shot Itself Down
On September 21, 1956 Grumman test pilot Tom Attridge was shot out of the sky. Bullets ripping through metal and …
Science in Aggregate: Week 12
I have dug through the Internet this week and uncovered all this science/pop culture goodness. You can find the hundreds …
Why Can Hitting A Bird Delay A Plane For Hours?
I received a text message today from my brother, waiting to board his flight home: Flight delayed 3-4 hours because …
The Mechanics of the Pull-Up (and Why Women Can Absolutely Do Them)
This post was originally published on Scientific American As a former rock climbing instructor, I have seen many contorted struggles …
POW! Teaching Physics with Batman
As an exercise more intended to see if I still have my engineering chops, I am going to solve perhaps …
The Ocarina of Time Travel, Extra Dimensions and Branching Universes
This post originally appeared on Scientific American One of the most critically acclaimed videogames of all time had a core …
Gravitational Lensing is the Coolest
Looking at the image below, you may think how cool the universe is to have a multi-core galaxy, but it’s …
Taking the Lift Out of Street Levitation, with Physics!
This post originally appeared on Randi.org A few weeks ago, Michael Shermer, founder of Skeptic Magazine and the Skeptics Society, …
Twitter Physics
I was milling through my Twitter feed when I happened upon a number of interesting physics tweets from Aatish Bhatia. …
Deep Impact: Newtonian Edition
In a fascinating post from XKCD on what would happen if a 100 foot diameter diamond impacted the Earth at …
Watching TV…Nerdily
Does anyone else take the time to fact check MythBusters as they watch it? No? Just me? Whatever. Episode 192: …
It’s not the fall that kills you…
Or, said a bit more in line with physics: It says: It’s not the Vf=Vi+at that kills you, it’s the …
Science Fact of the Day 3.19.12
You may have heard about all of the hubbub around neutrinos lately, but do you know what a neutrino detector …
Why do nuclear reactors glow?
You have seen the image in movies and TV, but it is not a case of fancy editing. Nuclear reactors …
Stars died so that you could live
Ever wonder where everything that makes you who you are came from? Obviously from your parents, but where did they …
