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The Pharaoh’s Serpent Demonstration
Science Buzz What sorcery is this!? Science, WTF are you doing!?
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Video: Paperclips Respond to Electromagnetism on a Train
Watch the paperclips move to the electromagnetic fields on a Japanese train as it accelerates and decelerates. Fitting that Japan's got the cutest paperclips I've ever seen, and they're not even shaped like Sanrio characters or woodland creatures.
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Link: Why Mercury is Forbidden Aboard Airplanes
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2004-09/amazing-rus...
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Because it could basically dissolve the aluminum the plane is made of before it had a chance to land.
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Link: Bionic Arms
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/health/research/11arm.h...
Scientists have developed an improved prosthetic arm that can be wired up to your nerves so you can control it with your brain, with no more effort than moving a natural arm. Bionic arm technology, one scientist explains, is currently somewhere between Dr. Strangelove and Luke Skywalker.
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Link: Science Beats Speeding Ticket
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1122042/Motorist-...
This guy got a ticket for driving 98 miles an hour, but he beat the charges by proving the 14-year-old car was not actually capable of going that fast. Given that he had sold his car and had to buy it back and then pay an “independent driving expert” to test its top speed, this is sort of a hollow victory. But still! Score one for science!
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Image: Stonehenge Under Lake Michigan
A group of researchers using sonar to find shipwrecks on the bottom of Lake Michigan believe they've found a 10-thousand-year-old stone structure like Stonehenge. There is a rock carved with an image of a mastodon with a spear in its side. So ancient peoples in Britain worshiped the sun or whatever, but ancient peoples in America were bad-ass mastodon hunters. Science!
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Link: Bees on Coke
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/science/06bees.html
Turns out cocaine makes bees “exaggeratedly enthusiastic about things that might not otherwise excite them.” They also love to dance! Bees: they're just like us.
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Image: Face Symmetry
Three professors do a quick study of facial asymmetry but altering famous faces to show how they would look if they were actually symmetrical. Try it with your own face and post the results as a response!
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Image: World’s Tiniest Propaganda
Mechanical engineer John Hart created tiny images of Barack Obama’s face using carbon nanotubes. Each face is half a millimeter wide, and the pictures were taken with microscopes.
