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That number is hella ridiculous

By Dave | Published: March 4, 2010
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Oh man, a physics student at UC Davis has proposed that the number 1027 carry the prefix of “hella-”. As in a hellawatt, a hellagram, or a hellameter. From the Urban Dictionary: Hella Originated from the streets of San Francisco in the Hunters Point neighborhood. It is commonly used in place of “really” or “very” when describing something. The [...]
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Have there really been more earthquakes than average?

By Dave | Published: March 1, 2010
Damage in Santiago, Chile. Photo by Reuters/Marco Fredes After the massive earthquake this past weekend in Chile, MSNBC published a sensationalistic piece entitled, “Is nature out of control?” The Wall Street Journal asked if three massive earthquakes around the world in two months are related and a cause for alarm. The mainstream media, always searching for [...]
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Water vapor and climate change

By Dave | Published: January 29, 2010
Just saw this absolutely ridiculous article posted on Digg, by way of the Guardian: “Water vapour caused one-third of global warming in 1990s, study reveals.” That’s gotta be one of the more sensationalist titles ever written in the climate change debate, which will help fuel and legitimize claims made by climate change deniers. Anyway, the article [...]
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The Known Universe

By Dave | Published: December 17, 2009
This video of The Known Universe is from the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium in New York City, and zooms out from the mountains of Tibet, showing every single satellite (artificial and not), star, and known galaxy in the universe. Absolutely incredible! Can you imagine if this was displayed in the Cal Academy of [...]
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A Glorious Dawn – Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking

By Dave | Published: October 25, 2009
Using auto-tune and clips from Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking to explain the Universe. Beautiful And here is another song done by the same artist, this time featuring Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Bill Nye. More information is available at The Symphony of Science. [Via Mental Floss]
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Visiting the International Space Station

By Dave | Published: April 6, 2009
I keep joking that I need to keep a dream journal, since I have ridiculously vivid dreams every single night. Last night, I apparently won a trip to the International Space Station. Unfortunately, in my haste to “pack” for the trip, I didn’t bring very much. Nor did I know that I would be in space [...]
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Google Earth 5

By Dave | Published: February 5, 2009
Over on the Geology News blog, I posted two videos I recorded yesterday playing with the new version of Google Earth. The first video examines Monterey Canyon, an underwater canyon near Monterey, California. The second video is the area that Spirit, a Mars Exploration Rover, landed at in January 2004.
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The Asteroid Apophis

By Dave | Published: January 13, 2009
Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson discusses the potential effects of an asteroid impact off the coastline of California in 2036. [Via Geeks Are Sexy]
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