Tag Archives: Science

Robot Apocalypse Comic

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Phil Bost

[via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]

Posted in Comics | Tagged Future, How Stuff Works, Robot Apocalypse, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Science, Smarts, Technology | Leave a comment

Thars Gold in them Watches

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Phil Bost

Bill Hammack is one of my favorite explainers. Keep it up, Engineer Guy. [via Make Magazine]

Posted in Smarts | Tagged Bill Hammack, Design, Education, Electricity, Engineer Guy, Gold, How Stuff Works, Make Magazine, Piezoelectric Effect, Quartz, Resonance, Resonant Motion, Science, Skills, Smarts, Technology, Time, Watches | Leave a comment

Busy Day at the Airport

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Phil Bost

[via Fogonazos]

Posted in Video | Tagged Airplanes, Airports, Beautiful, Design, Fogonazos, General Electric, Gold Panda, How Stuff Works, Magic, Music, Scary, Science, Skills, Smarts, Technology, Time Lapse | Leave a comment

Jim Fallows on Throwing Like a Girl

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Phil Bost

[image via Andrew Side A] Two things: 1. Natural movements aren’t always innate. 2. We need to stop with the ‘throwing like a girl’ talk. Jim Fallows: A surprising number of people think that there is a structural difference between … Continue reading →

Posted in Reading | Tagged Advice, Angela Vasquez-Giroux, Arizona State Softball, Baseball, Beautiful, Culture, Education, How Stuff Works, Linda Wells, Opinion, Science, Skills, Smarts, Softball, Sports, Tennis, The Atlantic, The Idler, the sandlot, Thoughts, Vic Braden | 2 Comments

Two Square Meters of Sunlight = Death Ray

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Phil Bost

Maybe not a death ray actually, but definitely a death spot. [BBC's Bang Goes the Theory via Sean Michael Ragan @ Make Magazine]

Posted in Video | Tagged Bang Goes the Theory, BBC, Beautiful, Design, Education, Fire, How Stuff Works, Make Magazine, Scary, Science, Sean Michael Ragan, Smarts, Sun, Technology, Wood | Leave a comment

New Hazard Discovered Involving Moving Walkways

Posted on November 12, 2010 by Phil Bost

[via Nedroid]

Posted in Comics | Tagged Airports, Animals, Art, Beartato, Canes, Einstein, Funny, How Stuff Works, Humor, Jokes, Nedroid, Reginald, Relativity, Scary, Science, Technology, Time Travel | Leave a comment

Take Your Medicine with a Grain of Salt

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Phil Bost

[via Savage Chickens] The subject of this article, Dr. John Ioannidis, is the medical establishment’s equivalent of an internal affairs investigative unit. According to his meta-studies, the findings from approximately half of the top 50 cited papers of the past … Continue reading →