Back when Fukushima had it’s issues due to an earthquake moving the entire island of Japan 8 feet [http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/japan.earthquake.tsunami.earth/index.html] over, Randall Munroe over at XKCD had not yet gone off the rails, and posted an interesting and highly useful infographic [https://xkcd.com/radiation/] on radiation levels. For people who hadn’t been trained in radiation dosimetry, it certainly is a damned useful way to visualize the degree of hazard associated…
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Chlorine Triflouride is truly nasty stuff [http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/sand_wont_save_you_this_time] . Courtesy of “Things I Won’t Work With [http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/things-i-wont-work-with] “: > It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that’s the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and…
I can’t do this justice, [it just has to be read to be believed](http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/09/27/what-this-here-compound-needs-is-some-hydrogen-peroxide). I only had a partial semester’s exposure to organic chem in college, but that or a vague memory of high school chem should give you enough context to find the article side-splittingly funny. A couple choice quotes from “What This Here Compound Needs Is Some Hydrogen Peroxide”:> Saying “this compounds doesn’t have enou…
Man, I absolutely love the little stick toy the dudes playing with, got one set at a ren faire, but that’s not why I’m posting this shot. That said, I brought you this lovely image because it looks like the god KEK has a sense of humor. Or Eris. They can fight over it, I’ll stay out of the way. Just look at the sign being held up on the hood, and the full glory of their attitude towards that which got them there in the first place.…
It turns out that Noam Chomsky was alway s full of shit, and not just when bloviating about areas outside of his supposed expertise. Yes, supposed. While he tends to mouth off about a lit of things, and holds the typically ever-so-liberal opinions on them, he’s given a lot of credence because of his academic chops in linguistics. It also turns out he was fundamentally wrong in his understanding of language learning [http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-rebuts-chomsky-s-theory-of…