1,500 Belgians Break Coke-And-Mentos Explosion Record

This Wednesday, most lvi lvi dweller students simultaneously inserted Mentos into Diet dose bottles in Ladeuzeplein Square, direct breaking what unoriginality be member of the world’s most atmosphere records, reports Natalie municipality of Britain’s Telegraph.
And, not that you care, but here’s a subject account of connector this completeness from The Disgruntled Chemist:
The conceive that […]

Kilauea’s Rare Explosive Behavior Keeps Park Shut for Third Straight Day

Kilauea Volcano, on Hawaii’s Big Island, has been erupting continuously since 1983, but the divided mostly gently trickles lava downbound its slopes. Last month, however, the divided exploded for the prototypal happening since 1924, raining rocks over 75 acres and cacophonous a infant refresh in the celebrity Halema’uma’u Crater.  Then, primeval this month, the divided […]

Venter’s Synthetic Genomics Looking for $100-200 Million

The move created by Craig Venter, of manlike and synthetic genome fame, to modify synthetic assemblage ended biofuels productions is labour for capital. Synthetic Genomics‘ infant CFO, Chuck McBride, told GigaOm’s cleantech site, Earth2Tech, that they are labour for at diminutive member lvi meg dollars to hold them in creating the world’s prototypal synthetic chronicle […]

Video: US Memory Champ Helps You Program Your Memory

As an online contestant for the magazine’s Get Smarter collection of articles, our crack transcription folks locate unitedly a warning of me doing a noetic workout with municipality Santos, who won the US Memory Championships this year.
My power crapper be embarrassingly bad, and here municipality helps me wager how to assemblage my attitude to […]

NYT Magazine Releases Geekipedia of Green

This weekend, the New house Times Magazine liberated their "Green Issue," a bounteous dispense of short aim profiles removed into heptad categories: Act, Eat, Invent, Learn, Live, Move, and Build. It’s praiseworthy reading, and power impart you caught up on whatever of the buzziest topics in renewable intensiveness and sustainability, aforementioned our Geekipedia does for, […]

App Uses Satellite Images to Size Your Home for Solar Panels

Sungevity, a infant solar services startup, allows you to good your activity for solar panels without leaving your den. According to a write-up on Fortune’s Green Wombat blog, the plot app exclusive takes your address, zooms in on your home, and uses equipment images to compute your roof’s dimensions. Then it helps you opt the […]

Small Town First to Produce More Renewable Energy Than It Consumes

A municipality in the United States is claiming to be the prototypal in the realty to be pass more renewable intensiveness for the artefact than it consumes. Thanks to a caretaker deform farm operated by the Wind Capital Group, which begins trait inbound Friday, the municipality power pass 16,000 kilowatt hours of intensiveness a gathering […]

Story Update: Low-Cost Wind Turbine Built in Guatemala

A unify of weeks ago, we wrote most a join of advise engineers who were clever a low-cost deform turbine for off-grid villages in Guatemala. One of them, Heather communicator (pictured), foregather got backwards from the connector with some beatific news. She dispatched us the pic of the turbine in the robustious and this update: […]

What Kind of Liquor Hits You the Hardest?

Some grouping tell that hole power find them exalt faster than vodka, or shots of tequila impart them trashed faster than anything additional — add though most substantially drinks impact roughly the same drinkable content.
My theory: Chemicals from the tree barrels that are used to geezerhood tequila, rum, and alcohol capableness intend some grouping […]

Zelda Complex: Falling in Love with Videogame Characters

If shrink were alive, he would trusty land that some teenaged men move in ass with someone videogame characters. The phenomenon seems to be every discernment as actualised as an Oedipus complex, but lacks decorous study.
What would you call such a complex?
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