Why Science is Important!

A quick, simple video showing why science is important.

Because it is important!

The New World’s Cutest Baby Animals

Switch on Switch off From the VapourBrothers

A great video made with all the electronics around your house – with a good message.

So how does the LHC Work

So you always wanted to know how the Large  Hadron Collider work, well check out this video to see how:

The Non-Proof Proof

Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): Kitchen Science: The Mystery of the Shivering Quarters

Here is a cool video of shivering quarters in dry ice. Can you explain the how and why?

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So you are having a bad day?

Well if you are just head over to End of the World and read about the 10 disaster that can really ruin your day.  You know such things as black holes coming around to visit or gamma ray bursts that kill everything on the planet.  You know stuff that we make the day you are having right now seem not quite as bad.  Cheers.

And So it must be So….

Hat tip Effective Measure.

Math of Global warming; Improved.

An animated gif of the math of global warming by by Craig Damrauer from Mother Jones.

The Cutest Animals? You Choose.

Check out LiveSciences.com and vote for your favorite cutest animal.

Crazy, Cool R/C Steam turbine tank.

This is so cool. A steam turbine powered tank. I grew up around steam engines both steam trains and boats so this definitely goes straight to the heart.

Toxic Pet food Contaminated with Melamine

The recent poisoning of pets here in the US from their food seems to have been caused by melamine a man made plastic. Researchers at Cornell have found the plastic in the urine of cats and the kidney of one cat. This find is also inclusive of the find of aminopterin found in samples of the pet food responsible.

ScienceDaily: Cornell Details Effect Of Pet Food Contaminant, Melamine

More on the recall here. And here is the list of recalled pet foods.

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Science + Art = Amazement

I am always amazed when art and science meet. Something that is, well for the lack of a better term, magical. This is the case with ferrofluids and artists when they come together. Morpho Towers is a site were the two of these mixtures come together and make magic. Watch the movie and be amazed.

The Universe of Scale

Nikon has this cool flash animation that relates scales to one another from the very large scale, the universe to the infinitesimally small.  So take a  gander over at Nikon if you always wanted to know about the true scale of the world and universe around you. Link.

Older, Wiser and a more Positive Outlook

I have made it to another decade today (yes it is my birthday today) and I am sitting here reading Science Daily, exciting isn’t it but, on a positive note I did find out that getting older gives you a more positive outlook on life.  Those of us that are older have a better balanced way of looking at the environment around them than those that are in the range of  18-25.  Needless to say I am not in that category.  At least I have  a  positive outlook on all the aches and pains from all the damage I have inflicted on myself in my younger years.  Heres to getting older and more upbeat.