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Category: Animals, Photography and Photographers, Science, Books
Posted By: Alex - Mon Sep 29, 2008 -
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Category: Art, Science, Experiments
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 19, 2008 -
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Category: Boredom, Education, Family, Children, Parents, Futurism, Pop Culture, Science, Technology, Video, 1950s, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Posted By: Alex - Thu Sep 18, 2008 -
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Posted By: Alex - Wed Sep 17, 2008 -
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Category: Paranormal, Science
WEEKEND WEATHER REALLY IS WORSE
The most comprehensive weather study ever has confirmed what we all suspected - the weather really is worse at weekends.
Meteorologists at the University of Karlsruhe evaluated 6.3 million pieces of climate data from across Europe between 1991 and 2005.
Their conclusion: On weekends the weather is worse than on weekdays.
Q: Why does the smoke from a campfire seem to blow into your face no matter where you sit or how many times you change position around the fire?
A: Your body blocks the flow of fresh air drawn to the flames. You are then creating a low air pressure area with your body and the warm smoke moves toward the lowest air pressure. With no wind, no matter where you sit in relation to the fire, the smoke will be drawn toward you.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 14, 2008 -
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Category: Entertainment, Family, Food, Science, Weather
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 10, 2008 -
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Category: Animals, Science, Experiments, Body Fluids
He suffered from incessant retching or vomiting, usually brought on by fatigue; and from painful bouts of wind that churned around after meals and obliged him to sit quietly in a private room until his body behaved more politely. Reading between the lines, his guts were noisy and smelly. "I feel nearly sure that the air is generated somewhere lower down than stomach," he told one doctor plaintively in 1865, "and as soon as it regurgitates into the stomach the discomfort comes on." He was equally forthright with his cousin...: "all excitement & fatigue brings on such dreadful flatulence that in fact I can go nowhere." When he did go somewhere, he needed privacy after meals, "for, as you know, my odious stomach requires that."
He also had trouble with his bowels, frequently suffering from constipation and vulnerable to the obsession with regularity that stalked most Victorians. He developed crops of boils in what he called "perfectly devilish attacks" on his backside, making it impossible to sit upright, and occasional eczema. There were headaches and giddiness. He probably had piles as well.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Sep 07, 2008 -
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Category: Medicine, Quizzes, Guess the Scientist, Science
After briefly distracting the patients, the researchers then asked them to think about the clips for a minute and to report “what comes to mind.” The patients remembered almost all of the clips. And when they recalled a specific one — say, a clip of Homer Simpson — the same cells that had been active during the Homer clip reignited. In fact, the cells became active a second or two before people were conscious of the memory, which signaled to researchers the memory to come.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 05, 2008 -
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Category: Celebrities, Science, Experiments, Psychology, Stupidity, Television, Husbands, Cartoons
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