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Astronaut Covers 'Space Oddity' From International Space Station [VIDEO]

Jeremy Fenech — Mon, 13 May 2013 16:51:55 +0000

A Canadian astronaut named Chris Hadfield has been commander of the International Space Station for the past five months. In January, he showed us how to wash your hands in space, and just last month he explained the physics of tears in space. But he's also a musician.

'Star Trek: The Next Generation' On The Big Screen For One Night Only [VIDEO]

Jeremy Fenech — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:19:47 +0000

"Star Trek: The Next Generation" will be on the big screen for one night only in Oxford! The Emmy Award-Winning episodes "The Best of Both Worlds" Parts One and Two have been remastered and will be presented as a full-length feature this Thursday Night!

Stephen Hawking Says Mankind Can't Survive on Earth More Than Another 1,000 Years

Wes Glinsmann — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:00:23 +0000

Renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking says the human race is doomed, unless we figure out how to leave Earth behind in the next 1,000 years. “We must continue to go into space for humanity,” Hawking said, during a recent speech at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. “If you understand how the universe operates, you control it [...]

You Can Name a Planet in Outrageous Contest

Drew Weisholtz — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:39:27 +0000

Earth, Mars, Neptune – how hard can it possibly be to name a planet? Now’s your chance to find out. A company called Uwingu which aims to raise funds for space exploration is holding a contest to name a planet that currently goes by the rather sci-fi-sounding moniker Alpha Centauri Bb. Because Alpha Centauri Bb, [...]

Women Are More Angry And Hostile When They Wake Up Than Men

Jeremy Fenech — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:41:27 +0000

After being married for a few years, people start to notice patterns developing in their spouses. Some are innocent little quirks, others are more like “run for your life” tendencies. A new study out of Duke University shows that women are more angry, hostile and confrontational than men when they wake up. I’m not saying [...]

Should Daylight Saving Time Happen on Saturday or Sunday? [AUDIO]

Jeremy Fenech — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:45:27 +0000

I’ve never really understood the point of Daylight Saving Time. I know that it is supposed to add an hour of daylight, but how? We’re just moving an hour of morning daylight to the afternoon. Not to mention, everyone seemed to be dragging this morning. Altering your body clock even one hour can cause you [...]

Michigan Fossils On Display At Seven Ponds

Carl Coffey — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:22:21 +0000

Now through Sunday, May 5th. Seven Ponds Nature Center in Dryden, presents the exhibit “Fossils of the Michigan Basin”. This traveling exhibit goes back 350 million years when Michigan was under an ancient salt water sea. You’ll have the opportunity to explore and discover the creatures and plants that lived in those seas through fossil [...]

Watch This Giant Real-Life Robot Dog Fling Cinderblocks Across the Room

Mike Moody — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:33:27 +0000

The mad scientists over at Boston Dynamics have created a four-legged dog-like robot they call BigDog robot. In this video released by BD earlier this week, you can see BigDog’s sole purpose, which, apparently, is to creep everyone out while flinging things across the room. Go technology! We’re calling the cops if this thing starts [...]

Would You Dare Drink a Ten Year Old Beer?

Mike Adams — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:59:59 +0000

While alcoholic folklore often paints a rotten picture of a man on a mission to drink himself blind with things like household chemicals, kerosene and anti-freeze, it is the consensus of “the committee” that not even the most desperate of the breed would dare knock back a bottle of decade-old beer.

Why Does My Beer Smell Like a Skunk?

Mike Adams — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:20:18 +0000

It does not take the well trained nose of a beer aficionado to determine if a beer has gone bad or not. No sir; upscale brew connoisseur and backwoods drunkards alike know that there is only one word to describe the putrid scent of beer gone rotten – and that is “skunk.” A skunked beer [...]

New App Lets You Gaze 10 Years Into Your Boozy Future

Donald Deane — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:00:16 +0000

If the threat of blackouts and liver failure isn't enough to turn you into a teetotaler, then this new photo app, which simulates the physical effects of alcohol abuse over a period of 10 years, just might.

Do You Drink Beer Because You're Addicted to Hops?

Donald Deane — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:00:40 +0000

We’ve always been under the impression that people drink beer because it’s awesome, but a new article suggests that hops addiction may actually be a real thing. Someone should tell these “scientists” that buzz-kills are rude. According to Joe Sixpack, some beer drinkers may experience something called “adaptation” after repeated exposure to hoppy beers. In [...]

New Facebook App Helps You Find Out Who Gave You the Flu

Cameron Simcik — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:00:14 +0000

We're not big fans of winter. The only good part of this season is that it's socially acceptable to grow a burly bush of upper lip hair to keep us warm, but other than that it's just cold, dreary and it's also the season of the flu. Just thinking about the chills, the aching, and the fevers makes us want to curl up and cry for our mommy-- it's awful.

DIY Home Brew System Lets Even the Chemistry-Challenged Brew Beer at Home

Mike Adams — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:00:52 +0000

The art of home brewing can be a challenging process, as it involves a bit more chemistry than most of us are willing to endure to catch a good old fashion beer buzz after work. Until now, that is.Former Popular Science photographer John Carnett has taken some of the science out of making beer at [...]

You're Not All Magnums — Study Shows Men Ignore Condom Sizes

Mike Adams — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 20:00:12 +0000

Some of us dudes are packing a bit more wiener than sense, according to a new study which shows that despite efforts to educate, many men still choose not to use condoms. The biggest complaint? They say their meat-stick simply will not fit into a one-size-fits-all rubber. We have the opposite problem, so we can't relate.

Less Than 20 Days to The End of the World? [VIDEO]

Jeremy Fenech — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 01:03:50 +0000

The countdown is on… There have been predictions about the end of time since… well, since time began. The Mayans, Hopi Indians, Nostradamus, even The Bible tells us about the end of days. But then again, the world was supposed to end several times before, and yet we’re still here (even after Y2K). So many [...]

Athletes Participate in Rube Goldberg Machine [VIDEO]

Jeremy Fenech — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:03:16 +0000

I had no idea what a Rube Goldberg machine was until a Christmas episode of Mythbusters. It’s basically a deliberately over-engineered or overdone machine that performs a very simple task in a very complex fashion, usually including a chain reaction. The expression is named after American cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg. Watch as amazing athletes [...]

Watch Felix Baumgartner Free Fall 23 Miles from the Edge of Space to Earth [VIDEO]

Tree Riddle — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:58:37 +0000

This morning (October 9th) Felix Baumgartner will attempt to make history by plummeting 120,000 feet (roughly 23 miles) from outer space back to Earth -- watch it live here!

Celebrate The Hexaflexagon [Video]

Steph Barber — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:58:07 +0000

Yes, there is such a thing as a hexaflexagon. I’m not sure what it’s practical applications might be, but it’s pretty fascinating to watch it come together! The first hexaflexagon was made by a British graduate student, Arthur H. Stone, in 1939, as he was playing with some strips of paper in class. If [...]

Big Harvest Full Moon Rises This Weekend!

Jeff Holbrook — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:48:07 +0000

This weekend, the harvest moon, which is the full moon closest to the fall equinox, will rise. It happens both tonight and tomorrow night, around dusk or so. You may have heard stories about the harvest moon being bigger or an orange color, but it really isn’t. Its different look depends where in the sky [...]