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Engineer Guy: How an Accelerometer Works
May 22nd
Okay, so you have a smart phone that rotates its screen depending on how you hold it. Nice, right? But I bet you don’t understand how the hell it does that. Especially from a chip that is only microns in size. Watch this and be smarter. Thank me.
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Loading ...New Engineer Guy Video- CCDs and Digital Cameras
May 20th
Bill takes apart a digital camera and exposes the Charged Couple Device that captures light onto a silicon chip.
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World Record Snakehead Caught in Potomac River
May 16th
The Potomac is a big river. Really big. It stretches from the mountains of West Virginia all the way to the Chesapeake Bay and it has scores of minor tributaries. And this river has some really big fish. I used to jetski on one of the tributaries and floating dead fish and fish washed up on shore were sometimes three feet in length. And with the Snakehead invasion, it is only expected that they will also reach enormous size on the Potomac. World Record size in fact.
From WTOP here:
A stunning new world record may have been set in the D.C. area.
A northern snakehead fish, which some people call “Frankenfish,” was pulled out of a tributary of the Potomac River by a Woodbridge man. The fish, which isn’t supposed to live in the D.C. area, weighed in at more than 18 pounds.
The current world record, set in Japan in 2004, is 17 pounds, 4 ounces.
The fish is an invasive species that has only been seen in the area within the past 10 years. However, fears that the snakehead will harm native species in the Potomac haven’t panned out.
“They’re getting bigger and bigger, while at the same time we’re not really noticing a significant change in other fish populations,” says Chaconas. “Whether it’s bass or crappie or any of the yellow perch. So they seem to be coexisting pretty well.”
Good news that they aren’t decimating the local fisheries as first thought. But Maryland is still giving away 200 dollar gift cards to Bass Pro shops for anglers who catch snakeheads.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Dissecting the Star Trek Utopia
May 15th
Ever wonder how the Star Trek society overcame corporations, human greed and competition? I’m pretty sure it wasn’t because the society evolved to no longer need it. I’m guessing that the first transporters were used to do away with all of the capitalists and staunch individuals who just weren’t “down” with the vision of a one world government.
Then came the conflict with Khan in the Eugenics Wars, then absolute poverty on a planetary scale, the nuclear war, and then First Contact with Vulcan. And the video below from Cracked gets it pretty much right.
Why The Star Trek Universe is Secretly Horrifying — powered by Cracked.com
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Snakehead Bounty in Maryland
Apr 5th
The Snakehead is an invasive fish that is destroying local ecosystems in my region.
From FoxNews here:
Wildlife officials in Maryland have put a bounty on the snakehead, the so-called “fish from hell” that can migrate on land and devastates the eco-systems of lakes, ponds and streams.
The state will give out $200 gift cards for Bass Pro Shops as well as other prizes for catching and killing the fish, which is native to Africa and Asia but is believed to have made its way to America through Asian seafood merchants.
I wonder if they would give out iTunes cards instead?
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Healing the Monkey Wounds
Mar 23rd
Remember this story from 2009? Charla Nash had her freakin’ face and hands torn off by a rampaging Chimpanzee. Cops had to show up and kill the animal but Charla was left with debilitating and disfiguring injuries. She’s had a face transplant and she is slowing regaining a human appearance again.
Pictured before the attack, left, before the transplant, centre, and after, right
From the DailyMail here:
Despite losing her eyesight, lips, nose, and hands in a vicious attack by a rampaging chimpanzee in 2009, face transplant recipient Charla Nash says she feels at home in her new skin.
The brave 58-year-old woman, who nearly died in the horrific mauling, told the Hartford Courant exclusively that she feels no different than she did before the attack.‘I just feel like it’s my face,’ she said. ‘It’s just not working real good.’
Ms Nash, a single mother from Stamford, Connecticut, told the Courant that she’s regaining movements in her face and can express herself with various motions.
Sandra Herold, who owned the 200-lb chimp Travis, died of an aneurism in 2010. Ms Nash said that if she could say anything to her former boss and friend, she would say she is ‘sorry that all this happened. And, nothing we can change now.’
However, she added that Herold was ‘a trouble person’ that was more worried about her pet – who was shot and killed after the attack – than she was of her. In past interviews, Ms Nash revealed that having a new face allowed her simple human pleasures – she has regained her sense of smell and can eat again.
I can’t even imagine myself in Charla’s shoes. What a tragic, horrifying nightmare she and her family has had to endure! You know, I say I have a fear of clowns, but ain’t now way a clown can kick my ass. But I’m pretty sure I’m helpless against a rampaging Chimp who has the strength of five of me. My nightmare fuel? This:
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Mar 20th
I love applying technology to solve tedious tasks. Working in a warehouse environment sucks and this system looks like a way to revolutionize order fulfillment.
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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 6) Loading ...It Must Be Maddening to Deal With Blondes
Mar 19th
Well, at least trying to have a conversation with them. This video is a knee slapper.
Click here to see a blonde solve Global Warming.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Adam Savage and Simple Ideas
Mar 16th
I really enjoy Adam Savage being passionate on stage when he gives presentations. This is a good one about how many scientific discoveries emerged from a simple notion and observations.
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Global Warming Makes You Fat
Mar 13th
Junk Science is piling atop of junk science. A bunch of Danes are now suggesting that the reason why people get fat as they get older over the past few decades is because of the increase in Carbon Dioxide. But lets not forget that the CO2 levels were wildly exaggerated in order to support the false myth that the oceans were going to boil over and flood the world.
Whole Lotta CO2 in this here cake!
From ScienceNordic here:
Danish researchers have announced a theory that may not only explain why people all over the world are getting fatter and fatter, but also warn of the serious consequences for life on Earth of continued pollution of the atmosphere by CO2 emissions.
In itself, the theory is quite simple: CO2 contributes to making us fat.
The theory arose several years ago, when Lars-Georg Hersoug studied the development of obesity among people who had been followed over a number of years, Hersoug was surprised to see that both fat and thin people taking part in the studies over a 22-year period had put on weight – and the increase was proportionately the same.
Orexins – which are neuropeptide hormones – in the brain stimulate wakefulness and energy expenditure. These hormones may be affected by CO2, and this can cause us to go to bed later, affecting our metabolism so it is easier for us to put on weight. But orexins are also involved in the stimulation of food intake.
This is nuttier than CO2 causing glaciers to melt and killing polar bears. Now we have a new voodoo brain chemical affected by CO2 in the air? Bullshit. People put on weight as they age and become less active. The science is only hard when you have to make stuff up to support a whacky theory.
So why would they want to invent a new stupid theory involving CO2? If liberals can’t get us to switch to clean energy and give up driving and electricity, maybe they can control us by forcing us all onto a special diet.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Stephen Hawking Loves the Bump and Grind
Mar 5th
I heard about the story of Stephen Hawking hanging out at an adults only swingers club while I was out in San Francisco but didn’t get a chance to look into it until now. And thanks to the whacky Taiwanese animators, I’m kinda sorry now. Most bizarre video of a physicist ever:
From Allvoices here:
Renown physicist Stephen Hawking is somewhat of a regular at a Devore, California sex club.
According to a source who has been a member of Freedom Acres swingers club for nearly half a decade, Hawking, 70, shows up to the club with a bevy of nurses and assistants and has naked woman grind on him.
“I have seen Steven Hawking at the club more than a handful of times,” the source revealed. “He arrives with an entourage of nurses and assistants. Last time I saw him he was in the back ‘play area’ laying on a bed fully clothed with two naked women gyrating all over him.”
Only thing worse than having to strip to raise your kids as a single mom is to have to dry-hump Stephen Hawkings bedsores while he says “Yeah, baby, do daddy real good” with that Speak-n-Spell voice of his.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...PCRM Still Bitchy Due to Protein Deficiency
Feb 19th
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is a group of radical leftists that have falsified their medical credentials in order to push their idiotic vegan dietary plans on the rest of America. Even after one of their vegan junk scientists rotted from the inside out of cancer, they continue to say that veganism is healthier. Their latest target of radical nannyism is the Des Moines, Iowa, fifth annual Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival, billed as America’s “premier” bacon celebration.
From the WSJ here:
The event, which sold out all 4,000 tickets in 25 minutes, offers something to make every swine lover swoon: unlimited bacon samples, a bacon-eating contest, educational lectures, a bacon-themed songwriting contest and crowning of a new bacon queen. Organizers plan to serve up about three tons of the fatty strips.
They’re also prepared for a bit of oinking from outsiders.
A group of vegetarian doctors has been skewering Iowans over the event for months. Neal Barnard, president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, says he wants to publicize the flip side of bacon.
He says the PCRM plans to hand out fliers with warnings about how bacon “rotting in your mouth” potentially has various health risks, including cancer and diabetes.
Like all liberals, the PCRM wants to control other people, including the food that goes into your mouth. There are politically correct diets, and none of them contain bacon and all of them contain soybeans.
Anyone can claim to be a doctor. I could pretend to be one and I would say that veganism leads to nonstop failure, bitchiness and supreme gayness.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Enterprise Maintenance
Feb 18th
Enterprise Maintenance, a photo by BelchSpeak on Flickr.
I got a chance to visit the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum this afternoon. The scaffolds around the Enterprise Space Shuttle are so workers can do something with the rear of the fusalage. Workers were busy either reattaching it or separating it for some reason.
I was disappointed too because they had the rear doors open and stairs leading up and into the orbiter. I first thought they were letting museum visitors aboard but it was only to give workers internal access to do their jobs.
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Liberals Call Ultrasounds Before An Abortion Rape
Feb 17th
Virginia passed a law that requires doctors performing abortions to accurately measure the age of the fetus because it is against the law to abort beyond 14 weeks. To do this you have to have an ultrasound, and a transvaginal one if the fetus is less than 10 weeks because it can’t show up on an external ultrasound. Liberals are running all over the country screaming that this requirement amounts to rape. Yet to liberals, abortions tickle, and that’s not rape at all. Buzzfeed was kind enough to provide a graphic of a transvaginal ultrasound:
Check out the ridiculous alarmism over at Buzzfeed:
Virginia Is For Lovers…And State Licensed Rapists
Virginia leaps backward to take first place with one of the most Big Brother draconian reproductive laws to date.
In Richmond, Virginia on Tuesday, the Republican controlled House passed the “Abortion: Informed Consent” bill 63-36. This follows the State Senate which already passed the bill on February 1st with a vote of 21-18.
The bill requires any woman seeking to terminate her pregnancy to undergo an ultrasound prior to the procedure. There is no opting out and whether or not the woman chose to view the fetus will be documented on her medical chart.
What the bill doesn’t say is that Virginia law, like many states, only performs abortions up to 14 weeks gestation.
For most women, this means before the state of Virginia will allow them to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, they will be forced undergo a transvaginal ultrasound since the fetus will be too small to view via pelvic ultrasound.
So, according to Virginia’s own laws, legislators will now be requiring women to undergo sexual assault as a medical procedure.
Such utter fear mongering. Since it is against the law to abort past a specific age, all abortions begin with an ultrasound anyways. Doctors have to confirm that a woman is truly pregnant and they like to avoid jail time by validating the age of the fetus. Putting this into law is actually better for women’s health, and it assists providers when it comes to liability for medical malpractice.
And if an ultrasound is rape, then abortion is murder. But if you are a woman pissed about this, its really because you are stupid.
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(1 votes, average: 1.00 out of 6) Loading ...Fools in Ontario Still Worried About WiFi
Feb 14th
Pity the children of Ontario. The adults in the province are themselves so uneducated that they believe that the radiation from wifi hotspots will give kids cancer. Back in 2010 I wrote about the idiots up in Ontario led by a woman named Susan Clarke who led the charge to rip wifi out of schools in Barrie. I think she has influenced a large Catholic Teachers’ Union to do away with the technology in all of the Catholic schools.
Ontario adults typically wrap their noggins in tin foil. Wifi waves bake their brains eh.
From the DailyCaller here:
Wi-Fi has found its way into classrooms across Canada, and the Ontario English Catholic Teacher’s Association (OECTA) believes it “may present a potential health and safety risk or hazard in the workplace,” the National Post reported.
The union’s statement, released earlier this week, targets the increase of wireless devices such as iPads in primary education facilities. Wireless Internet has been made available in 81 school districts in Ontario over the past three years.
“The safety of this technology has not thoroughly been researched and therefore the precautionary principle and prudent avoidance of exposure should be practiced,” the statement read.
“We’re not saying rip them out of the building,” OECTA President Kevin O’Dwyer clarified. “My sense is that there’s enough doubt out there that we should hold off until there’s more research.”
How absolutely retarded of Kevin O’Dwyer. There is more radiation from living inside a brick home than you can derive from electronic wireless communications. But check out the bullshit pseudoscience these addled grownups quote in their position paper here:
Effects from Exposure
There are reports of a number of immediate biological effects that are experienced with exposure, such as; headaches, nausea, dizziness, difficulty concentrating, weakness, pressure in the head, and a racing or fluttering heart (tachycardia).Moreover, students are considered to be more susceptible to microwave radiation because of their age and their earlier stages of development.
Implementation of WiFi technology in schools will produce unprecedented exposure to microwave radiation of approximately 6 hours each school day, 5 days a week, for 40 weeks each year. This will be without any studies being done to determine the effects of either the short-term or long-term effects of this microwave exposure on adults as well as children.
Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity
A portion of the population are estimated to be affected in some way by an environmental sensitivity called electro-hypersensitivity, which is an increased sensitivity to non-ionizing radiation, and may become ill when WiFi is initialized.
Of course there is no proof of any of these outlandish and idiotic claims. And note that it mirrors perfectly with the claims I wrote about in 2010 with Susan Clarke. I’m certain she is behind this junkscience claim.
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American Psychiatric Association: No Such Thing As Aspergers
Feb 10th
Freaky, soulless, self-absorbed asshats, yes. Aspies, no. The APA is doing away with a clinical diagnosis of Aspergers since no one can figure out what the hell it is or if it actually exists. There will just be autism on a graduated scale.
In this famous action sequence, a selfish child that has no soul conceives of an idea that he is afflicted with a special disease that will excuse all of his horrible selfish behavior.
From the DailyBeast here:
Asperger’s, Overdiagnosed, Ill Defined, May Not Be a Syndrome Much Longer
Psychiatrists working on the latest edition of their profession’s diagnostic manual are thought to be tightening the definition of autism and dispensing with Asperger’s completely.
It’s a reasonable question to ask in the midst of the furor over the American Psychiatric Association’s proposed changes to the way autism spectrum disorders are diagnosed. According to the plan, the APA’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the profession’s standard diagnostic reference for mental disorders will not contain Asperger’s syndrome at all. Instead, all diagnoses of autism—of which Asperger’s is currently considered a subset—will be collapsed together onto one spectrum, and rated in gradations from mild to severe.
For all its clinical and cultural resonance, Asperger’s syndrome is still only a recent addition to the American diagnostic vocabulary. In the 18 years since it arrived, no one has been able to agree on what it is.
So Gary McKinnon, famed Aspergers sufferer who is using his self-diagnosis to prevent being extradited to the United States to face criminal charges, is now considered by the APA to be merely “daft” rather than having a real disease. Eat it, AssPies.
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FDA Sued By Stupid Scientists Who Can’t Read
Jan 30th
The FDA used its sophisticated network monitoring tools to reconstruct emails and documents sent via an external unauthorized email account, and ultimately the scientists who were bypassing FDA content filters were fired. Now they are suing the FDA for “spying on them” and doing so “secretly” despite the fact they see this every time they boot their FDA workstation:
(FDA) - The startup screen on FDA computers warns employees, “you have no reasonable expectation of privacy,” including any communication accessed or sent from the machine. This specific message has appeared since at least December 2010.
From the WaPo here:
The Food and Drug Administration secretly monitored the personal e-mail of a group of its own scientists and doctors after they warned Congress that the agency was approving medical devices that they believed posed unacceptable risks to patients, government documents show.
The surveillance — detailed in e-mails and memos unearthed by six of the scientists and doctors, who filed a lawsuit against the FDA in U.S. District Court in Washington last week — took place over two years as the plaintiffs accessed their personal Gmail accounts from government computers.
Information garnered this way eventually contributed to the harassment or dismissal of all six of the FDA employees, the suit alleges. All had worked in an office responsible for reviewing devices for cancer screening and other purposes.
Scientists who violate an obvious monitoring policy really have no legitimate complaint. Don’t want to be monitored? Use an SSH tunnel- at least until you get caught doing that too.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Someone Got Legos For Christmas?
Jan 2nd
This is a pretty amazing machine built out of legos, and it even employs electronic sorters to separate the types of little balls. But I agree with the commenters on YouTube that say the only thing this guy has really engineered is a way to be forever alone.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Chemtrails Really Can Be Dissolved With Vinegar
Dec 27th
You really have to weep for the idiocy that infests this country when you realize these people have the right to vote.
Watch this moronic mom make her son videotape her hunting contrails from overhead jets while she sprays vinegar into her back yard. She thinks the government is spraying chemicals in addition to jet exhaust to make people derpy, and she knows this is a fact because she is a chemistry and physics genius.
The planes fly at 6 miles of altitude, and with just a few degrees at an angle toward the horizon makes the aircraft, and their corresponding contrails of frozen vapor, about ten miles away. Pythagorean’s theorem puts the commercial aircraft about 12 miles away. Yet somehow, spraying vinegar at your dandelions makes the contrails dissipate. Can anyone please tell me how the science behind this works?
What do they do about spraying chemtrails at night when they are invisible? Or now that the youtube videos are out there blowing the lid off this conspiracy, won’t the government just make chemtrails that are impervious to vinegar?
At least she’s not as whacky as the Obama voter that blamed rainbows in her sprinkler on Bush.
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...Thanks to Kepler 22-b, Hippies Can Restart SETI
Dec 7th
The loneliest job in the galaxy is working at SETI, scanning the heavens for extraterrestrial life in the form of transmitted TV and radio waves. Know why its so freakin’ lonely? Cause aliens don’t freakin’ exist. But now that the news has hit that there is a star with an Earth-like planet out there, dirtbag pot smoking undergrads are going to open up the shop and put on their earphones again.
From CNET here:
The search for aliens is back on–and newly confirmed Earthy-ish planet Kepler 22-b is among the top targets.
SETI’s Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is once again searching for extra-terrestrial life after spending several months in hibernation. The University of California cut funding to the program due to budget constraints, and last April the ATA ceased its obsessive habit of intense inter-galactic eavesdropping. The array “listens” across a broad range of frequencies for any radio transmissions from, well, somewhere else.
The SETI Institute says the restart of the search is thanks to funding raised via the Web–the SETIStars program has raised more than $200,000 in online donations–as well as additional funds from the U.S. Air Force.
The announcement comes as NASA also announced this week that its Kepler mission had confirmed the first Earth-like planet in a habitable zone where liquid water and life might exist. The planet, dubbed Kepler 22-b, is 600 light years away and roughly 2.5 times the size of Earth. Scientists believe surface temperatures to be comfortably around 70 degrees
So that planet was 70 degrees 600 years ago. If a light year is measured in the span of time it takes for light to travel, then the fact that this stellar body has been observed means that we are peering into the past.
And climate science is so awesome we can now predict weather on a planetary body 600 years in the past at a vast distance? I’m even more skeptical of this new climate science than I am of our own.
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