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In America, self-defense means having a loaded handgun or shotgun readily available. In the UK, where handguns are much more strictly regulated (yet people don’t apparently feel more secure), you have to get a bit more creative.
One of the earliest computers in the modern sense was never actually built–Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine. There were many reasons it never got built, but apparently an utter lack of Legos was one.
Only a hospital could connect global warming to cigarette smoking.
Mythbusters is a great show, but there are some pressing questions they just don’t answer: How much alcohol can you get into a Jell-O shot? How do you make ballistics gelatin at home? How many condoms can you wear at once? Fortunately, My Science Project has these answers and more.
When I saw a link to a story titled “Song Helps 3-Year-Old Call 911 for Mom,” I fully admit that the first song that jumped into my head was the wrong song.
In a motor vehicle crash, is that fat pad on your belly as soft as you think?
There’s not much sillier than finding a name for your trial, then figuring out words to make it an acronym.
Since the famous Dr. Peter Safar did most of his work on resuscitation at the University of Pittsburgh, it was only fitting that Pitt’s center for resuscitation science should be named after him. When Virginia Commonwealth University chose to create a similar hotbed of research, someone apparently noticed that VCU could have a few letters added [...]
Via William Gibson’s blog, a treat that he describes as “as solid an icon of Progress as we’ve seen this year:” the cheeseburger in a can; I must admit I agree with this writer that this is “both the best and worst thing I’ve ever seen.”
Strangely, not only did the Mythbusters not build the world’s first jet-powered beer cooler, the guy who did so managed to pull it off years before that show’s first episode–and, strangely, doesn’t even seem to be an American (which I thought was a prerequisite for something this overwrought). How many dads wouldn’t want something this powerfully impractical?
