All Posts Tagged With: "science"

NASA sends machine to ISS that converts urine to drinking water [The More You Know]

Recently, NASA sent a machine up to the International Space Station that converts urine to drinking water. The machine was in development for 10 years and sometimes things didn’t turn out quite as planned in earlier versions…

Ultrasound can give you memories of things that never happened [I Heart Tech]

Want to remember doing something, like attending 400 lectures on molecular cell biology, without ever actually having to do it? A special kind of ultrasound can trigger neurons in your gray matter, and the team of Arizona State neuroscientists who discovered this immediately played the Total Recall card. They’re already talking about implanting memories of [...]

The complete mammalian family tree in one big-ass PDF [The More You Know]

This is super cool– the entire mammalian family tree. It’s a decent-sized PDF, at 1.6M, but it’s incredibly cool and geeky and would make an awesome poster that I could stare at for hours and hours. Click here to look at and/or download this awesome piece of science from ABC Australia.

Enjoy the benefits of auto-urine therapy. As in drinking your own pee for health. Yummy. [Pic]

Giant centipede eats a mouse [The More You Know]

Score one for the insects. If these things ever get to be the size of buses, we are all totally screwed. God, I love nature. Oh and in all the carnage, the video has a nice, soothing classical soundtrack, which is a rarity for Youtube videos.

I’m 80% girl, 20% boy: Interview with an intersex person [The More You Know]

When she was an infant, Adele was born intersex and like most cases of intersex babies at the time and still today, the doctor chose her gender and they chose male. This is an unusual case in that in most cases of intersex babies, the doctor chooses female, but in many cases either way, the [...]

Sunday Sin: Making a pure semen omelette [I Heart Kink]

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 [...]

What it looks like to get bitch-slapped in super slow motion [The More You Know]

From Braniac comes this slow-motion video showing a bitchslap as it ripples through someone’s face. As you can see by the normal speed version, it’s actually a pretty light slap and it just for a split second, the face is still rearranged like a Picasso.

IHC Book Review: 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense [IHC Book Club]

The world around doesn’t hold any more mysteries for us, right? Well hang on there rational thinking man, what happens when the results of your experiments deviate quite a bit from your expected results? Do you ignore the results to fit in with the world around you? Or do you try and find another answer?

Science proves that expensive exotic sportscars turn women on [The More You Know]

In another study that proves what we already know and is a veiled advertisement for an insurance company, studies show that the sound of a really expensive exotic car turns women on.  So of course, this means that the insurance company that paid for this study is hoping that you’ll get a really expensive car [...]