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Tag: physics

Best review ever for a radioactive substance on Amazon.

Apparently, there once was some Uranium Ore you could’ve purchased from Amazon.com

This review/comment that I’ve screen grabbed below is priceless:

Link to Amazon.com page

You like comics, but not sure about the mysteries of the universe – then check this out.

Dark Matters from PHD Comics on Vimeo.

From the folks who bring you PhD (Piled Higher and Deeper).

Brilliant but minimalist DIY telescope.

Via Fresh Photons

Eerie bubble and ferrofluid movie.

“I combined everyday soap bubbles with exotic ferrofluid liquid to create an eerie tale, using macro lenses and time lapse techniques. Black ferrofluid and dye race through bubble structures, drawn through by the invisible forces of capillary action and magnetism.”

Mesmorizing to watch: kind of want to get some ferrofluid now to play with. Especially after you read a little more on the properties of this strange material (see wiki entry).

Wonder Woman versus Wonder Twin Zan. Super Friends Science Episode.

When it becomes clear that a mission is botched because Wonder Woman is clearly visible in her invisible jet, unhappy murmurs begin to surface within the Super Friends’ organization. In particular, Zan, of the Wonder Twins, is merciless in his teasing of Wonder Woman. It also doesn’t help that Wonder Woman, herself, is generally not impressed with his otherwise useless superpower (“Form of a bucket of water? What in Amazon is that about?”)

In any event, Batman decides to put his scientific mind to work by fixing the jet and soon discovers a small error in the optics of one of the twenty cameras that are responsible for the illusion. Unfortunately, this only seems to encourage Zan further, who torments Wonder Woman on the seemingly mundane manner that invisibility is conferred. (“It’s literally all done with cameras! What a loser plane!”)

In the end, fed up with Zan’s abuse, Wonder Woman soundly beats the crap out of him.

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(Originally published at YPR)