Metousiosis

ArcAttack @ the 2012 Marker Faire

metousiosis — Wed, 23 May 2012 23:18:25 +0000

At the 2012 Maker Faire, the Tesla Coil musical group Arc Attack put Adam Savage and a Dalek in the Faraday Cage in order to perform their renditions of AC/DC’s Back in Black and the theme to Doctor Who, respectively.

The Cheshire Cat

metousiosis — Wed, 23 May 2012 22:44:44 +0000

The Cheshire Grin as depicted by Lyn MacDonald, on display as part of the ‘Studios Without Wall’ exhibit along the Emerald Necklace in Riverway Park, Boston, MA.

Cam+ with Vibrant filter. Photograph by Metousiosis.

House Quote

metousiosis — Mon, 21 May 2012 21:43:06 +0000

You can have all the faith you want in spirits and the afterlife, heaven and hell, but when it comes to this world, don’t be an idiot, because you can tell me that you put your faith in God to get through the day, but when it comes time to cross the road, I know you look both ways.

- Dr. House

[Via Reddit]

Wulfenite

metousiosis — Sun, 20 May 2012 15:50:16 +0000

A close-up of a remarkable specimen of Wulfenite - Bladed Crystals, Glove Mine, Amado, Arizona - on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

Photograph by Metousiosis.

Transporting the Enterprise in Time Lapse

metousiosis — Sun, 20 May 2012 14:41:55 +0000

A couple of short time lapses of the Space Shuttle Enterprise being loaded and then removed from the NASA 747 at JFK airport.

The Physics of the Levitating Slinky

metousiosis — Sat, 19 May 2012 00:30:47 +0000

Inside Science and Hooked on Science reveal just how the bottom of a suspended Slinky levitates in midair while dropped:

In February 2000, the late science writer Martin Gardner posed a simple question intended for physics students, but also triggering a new round of papers and videos on the much-studied toy. Gardner wrote: “If you hold one end of a Slinky, letting it hang down and then drop it, what happens?”

“It turns out the bottom stays suspended, levitating in air for some period in time,” said Shimon Kolkowitz, a physics graduate student at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. As an undergraduate at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. in 2007, Kolkowitz wrote a paper now posted online for a class taught by his professor, physics Nobel Laureate Robert Laughlin.

Aldous Huxley Quote

metousiosis — Fri, 18 May 2012 23:04:15 +0000

Facts Do Not Cease to Exist Because They are Ignored

- Aldous Huxley

[Via Reddit]

Ice Filaments

metousiosis — Fri, 18 May 2012 21:48:27 +0000

Some rather striking frosted ice filaments discovered this afternoon in a -80 C freezer at the new lab.

Cam+ with Vibrant filter. Photograph by Metousiosis.

Carl Sagan Quote

metousiosis — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:12:25 +0000

The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them — the sense that we have a monopoly on the truth; that those other people who believe in all these stupid doctrines are morons; that if you’re sensible, you’ll listen to us; and if not, to hell with you. This is nonconstructive. It does not get our message across. It condemns us to permanent minority status.

― Carl Sagan, Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Brain Delusions

metousiosis — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:57:33 +0000

Illusionist Apollo Robbins, the gentleman thief, demonstrates just how easily our brains are fooled as part of the following hour of Brain Games on National Geographic . . .

Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4