Science
Erismann and Kohler: Inversion Goggles
"The movie documents a classic experiment conducted in 1950 by Ivo Kohler and Theodor Erismann at the university of Innsbruck, Austria. Erismann is the older person the movie, and Kohler, his research assistant at that time, is the person wearing the inversion goggles. Subtitles are all in German."
Full story here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 15, 2015 -
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Category: Science, Experiments, 1950s, Eyes and Vision
Women in Algae
This scientific conference, being held in March, runs the risk of attracting the wrong kind of people. Because I'm sure there must be a fetish group out there aroused specifically by the combination it's advertising.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Feb 25, 2015 -
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Category: Science
Eye Test
These two pictures are part of a science experiment. The tractor has been replaced by an octopus. What is being measured?
Answer after the jump.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 29, 2014 -
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Category: Science, Experiments, 1970s
Nuclear Detergent
Willard Libby is best known as the winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded for his role in developing radiocarbon dating. But throughout the 1950s and 60s he was also a tireless promoter of nuclear energy, assuring the public that fears about radioactivity and nuclear fallout were greatly overblown. One of his ideas for a beneficial use of radiation was to radiate laundry detergent. As far as I know, no detergent maker ever got behind this idea.
Source: Newsweek - Jan 13, 1964
Posted By: Alex - Fri Nov 14, 2014 -
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Category: Science, Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters, 1960s
Hermaphroditic Frogs
All he's saying is that it makes hermaphrodites of frogs. That's all!
NY Times - Apr 17, 2002
via Lou Ciccone
Posted By: Alex - Tue Nov 11, 2014 -
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Category: Science
The Coldest Case
It appears that the 126 year old cold case of Jack the Ripper has been solved by DNA testing. A shawl that was alleged to have been found next to Catherine Eddowes, one of the Ripper's victims, carries mitochondrial DNA profiles from both Eddowes' line and the familial line of one of the Ripper suspects. Polish immigrant Aaron Kosminski, who subsequently spent his later years in mental asylums, lived in the area of the killings, and was a suspect, left his DNA behind on a bloody shawl. That shawl turned out to be a time capsule for justice.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Sep 19, 2014 -
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Category: Crime, Death, Evil, Science, Historical Figure, Seventeenth Century, Blood
Giulio Ulivi and the F-rays
Good essay with fotos here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 06, 2014 -
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Category: Destruction, Explosives, Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Science, 1910s, Weapons
Zinjanthropus Blues
More songs here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 15, 2014 -
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Category: Music, Science
Kate Smith, the flag-raising rat
Kate Smith was a rat trained to raise a small American flag. It was trained by Kelly Buckwalter of Santa Barbara High School as "an experiment in operant conditioning" for her chemistry and psychology classes.
Do kids still get to do experiments like this in high school? Somehow I doubt it. Source: The Tuscaloosa News - May 22, 1976.
Posted By: Alex - Sat May 24, 2014 -
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Category: Animals, Science, Experiments, Psychology, 1970s
Operation Ranger and Operation Buster-Jangle
What a crazy old world that was. "Mutually Assured Destruction." But we just thought it was normal at the time.
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 22, 2014 -
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Category: Death, Destruction, Dreams and Nightmares, Science, Technology, War, Armed Forces, Weapons, Documentaries, 1950s
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