The University of Utah's Genetic Science Learning Center has put together a great little Flash presentation showing the scale of things as big as a coffee bean all the way down to the size of a carbon atom. The world... IT'S SO TINY! Click here to view things you can't see with your human eyeballs.

Quirky alt-pop band They Might Be Giants have recently gone all kid-friendly with their new album "Here Comes the Science", a CD and DVD set marketed towards children. Check out the video below for "Meet the Elements".

For as long as pharmaceutical companies have existed, so has existed the clinical placebo, milk and sugar pills (or some other neutral substance) to measure the actual effectiveness of drugs as opposed to how effective your mind is at telling your body that the drug is doing its job. If a drug is found to be no more effective than a placebo, the drug is ditched. The problem is that lately, more and more drugs are failing the placebo test and drug companies have no idea why.

Okay, so this video is pretty gross but at the same time it's one of the more fascinating porn videos I've seen in a while-- girl gets bukkaked all over, they scrape the semen off her face into a measuring cup and pour maybe 2 cups of pure semen onto the griddle. And then... the shit cooks just like an egg. Which, I guess shouldn't be too surprising considering that semen and egg whites are probably very close chemically, but it's still neat that it ends up looking just like an egg whites omelette.

There's nothing so awesome as the raw power of chemicals destroying each other and their surroundings. Better than animals tearing each other apart or men slugging it out-- molecules going head to head, ripping each other to pieces. Number 10... thermite versus liquid nitrogen.