Those among you in the Great British isles this weekend will probably have some fairly strong opinions about snow. But although the BBC News site is saturated with articles about the effect on life, limb and liberty, there are certain things they won’t have covered. Read the rest of this entry »
Why, when our nose is irritated, do we sneeze through our mouth instead?
How old is Wakko from the Animaniacs? The song ‘Hello Nurse’ tells us that Wakko is “only seven”, but the internet claims the writers said he wasn’t really seven when he sung the song.
On his blog, the show’s creator Tom Ruegger shows a scene that got missed out of the original show as it was considered inappropriate. It does however prove that there’s no way Wakko was intended to be “only seven” as the song might claim. Read the rest of this entry »
How do you make transparent ice? Also, why does just-boiled water freeze faster than cold?
Snow is frozen water, and that’s not transparent either. But massive Antarctic glaciers are clear and beautiful. It’s all the same water, so why the difference?
The truth is, not all water is the same.
Do wormholes really bend space and time? If so, how is their pull that strong that they would distort time?
The theory is one that any self-respecting geek or Donnie Darko fan will be familiar with. An Einstein-Rosen bridge is a theoretical tunnel through space and time which allows the user to travel further or more quickly than traditional linear travel between the two points.
Science knows a certain amount about this phenomenon, but they do not understand the full story. Read the rest of this entry »