Finally
Thursday, September 15th, 2005Finally, a use for dead cats.
Archive for the 'science' Category
.Bacon!
Monday, June 27th, 2005This is pure genius. It’s an alarm clock that will wake you up with the smell and sizzle of cooking bacon. How it works is when the alarm goes off it powers up a halogen lamp inside the module that holds the bacon. It slow cooks the bacon in 20 minutes or […]
HA!
Thursday, May 12th, 2005This is from Forbes.
As far-out as they may sound, robotic replacement limbs are actually tantalizingly close. Hugh Herr at the MIT Media Laboratory for instance, developed a robotic knee and lower leg that allows patients to walk almost normally and even rollerblade. Herr’s devices are being tested at Brown University under a $7.2 million grant […]
Endless Oil
Tuesday, May 10th, 2005Mainly because of how absolutely ridiculous gas prices are, I’ve been looking into various alternative energy possibilities there are out there. One of the most interesting ones is called Biodiesel. Little known fact that the creator of the diesel engine originally created it to run on vegetable oil. Since then, it was […]
Why Don’t You Eat Some Wall Candy While You’re At It?
Tuesday, May 10th, 2005I learned today that NASCAR is one of the few places that still use leaded gasoline. Reason why is that the lead in the gasoline acts as a lubricant for all of the valves in the engine of the car. Problem is, the certain kind of lead they use is one of the […]