Old computer ads…
For those who never saw the ad below, look at this really funny walk down memory lane.
View ArticleThe $50B science thing
As expected, The Onion does a much better job than I did. The scientists spoke for approximately three hours about the complicated science machine, which is expensive, and large, telling members of the...
View ArticleDemo effect, by Honda
Someone recently shared with me an interesting quote from Immanuel Kant: Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made (German original: Aus so krummem Holze, als woraus der...
View ArticleAnd the winner is…
My favorite Ig Nobel prize this year is in Linguistics: LINGUISTICS: Juan Manuel Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and Núria Sebastián-Gallés, of Universitat de Barcelona, for showing that rats sometimes cannot...
View ArticleAirbus construction
You may recently have heard that an Airbus A340 was recently damaged during ground testing. Well, it’s surprising this does not happen more often. Below is a video showing just how complex the...
View ArticleFunny science quote of the day
I found this piece funny, in particular: [Funding a particle accelerator is] not a trivial sum of money for a lot of people, but it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the $1,500 per head price tag of...
View ArticleMultiple operating systems on a single tomato
If you want to learn something about virtualization, this video is not necessarily the most extensive technical explanation you might get, but it’s short and it’s funny. And Debbie is really our...
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