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Calenders That Are the Same Every Year?

Preposterous. As we all know, we have to think about which day holidays fall on every year. This year Christmas fell on a Sunday, next year it will be a Monday, etc. Due to the way the months are organized with some having 30 and others having 31 days, the calender is different every single [...]

2011 Greatest Abuses Against Science

The Sense About Science (SAS) campaign created its list of the greatest abuses against science this week that tells of the most ridiculous public spectacles in which science is misunderstood in the media. It is the 2011 Celebrities and Science review. Started in 2007 with much frustration hearing celebrities butcher science, the review has become [...]

Small Spiders Have Brains All the Way Into Their Legs

Haller’s rule: is that larger animal species though having absolutely larger brains have relatively smaller brains than related smaller species. It was first proposed by Albrecht von Haller in 1762. It applies both to brains of invertebrates and vertebrates. The rule also applies to eyes. As the rule above states, the smaller an animal gets [...]

‘Mythbusters’ Amazing Cannonball Failure

I’m sure a lot of you watch Mythbusters regularly so there isn’t much to explain. Couple of dude do science experiments with the end game of disproving myths and rumors that they run a crossed. Anyways, a recent show went from a fun experiment to a possible neighborhood tragedy. In the experiment the crew fired [...]

PA Systems

Been looking for a new pa system for my buddy at his restaurant. He runs a place with bands and a lot of music so he needs to hook something up pretty nice. Really not sure what to look for though. If anyone has any ideas let me know and help me figure out what [...]

Record Size Black Holes Discovered In Monster Galaxies

That artist rendition above sure is freaky eh? Well probably not yet until you hear this: University of California, Berkeley, astronomers have discovered the largest black holes to date ‑- two monsters with masses equivalent to 10 billion suns that are threatening to consume anything from your north face fleeceto even light, within a region [...]

Voyager Sending Back Data From New Region Edge of Solar System

Over the past year, NASA’s Voyager 1 has been sending back data from outside our solar system where it now resides. The spacecraft is about 11 billion miles from the sun, and not yet in interstellar space. “Voyager tells us now that we’re in a stagnation region in the outermost layer of the bubble around [...]