Tag Archives: Science
“Mind over matter” is one of the most widely known colloquial phrases, and it turns out it’s a little truer than we thought. This cute little instructional film isn’t quite telling us The Secret, but it’s pretty awesome nonetheless. It turns out that visualizing an activity can have an amazingly direct impact on how capable you become at that activity. Practicing in your head isn’t quite as potent as practicing Read More
The nerd returns with a short, low-res video of a 3-mile-long asteroid caught on tape by NASA passing by the Earth a week ago. The asteroid, Toutatis, was only 4.3 million miles away from us at its closest point. But fret not, dear readers, it will not hit us. Toutatis will make its way around the sun before swinging by our neighborhood again in 2069, when it will be only 1.8 million Read More
Steffen Heidemann and Viktoria Klein have created a strikingly accurate depiction of our great northern sky. The Northern Sky print comes with enchanting details that will keep you enthralled for hours on end.
For those of you who are frequent users of the phrase “once in a blue moon,” you’ll be delighted to hear that that time has come. This year August has two full moons and tonight is the Blue Moon. But don’t get your hopes up, the moon won’t actually be blue. That’s because a Blue Moon is sometimes defined as the second full moon in a calendar month. The first Read More
Science; the Catholics despise it, hipsters use it to back inaccurate facts and the general public just thinks it’s a foreign language altogether. Despite science’s tendency to be misunderstood, it has had its practitioners who were willing to get its points across in an appealing manner. Bill Nye, Beakmen, Sid the Science Kid — they all attempt to make us understand science just a little bit more everyday. They are champions in their Read More