007-373-5963 These numbers are forever burned into my memory. In total I have beaten him twice in my life. I cannot count the number of times I have lost to him, but I’ll take those two wins and be satisfied.

It’s called scale.

Definitely not a stupid question! I did well in science and don’t really know what it is :)

I never did well in science, so this is probably a stupid question: what exactly are the flakes which fall off? Is that metal which is just considered useless? Seems like it wastes a lot if it is.

I have always read True Crime and found many of the stories facinating and an interesting read (insights into the times and minds involved). But I have to say these last few have been to the normal “True Crime” section what “Saw” is to horror films. Just gore and vileness with no other interest. I know that is just my…

I really don’t feel like these true crime pieces fit on io9 at all. They’re just... unpleasant and jarring. *sad face*

All tweets are like that to be honest.

It is mainly glass and sand products. When the metal ore is made there is always some contamination from the soil and this is the by products.

I think my usage would show I visit All Gawker Sites to much. . . Except Kotaku. . . Its blocked. . . :(

Good informative piece here! :) Sound can propagate as long as there’s a continuous medium along its travel path. So, whenever the medium is dense enough, it’ll go on. In addition to the “types of sound” you listed, you can listen to actual sound (not just waves) in the accretion disks around black holes. The material…

That was basically my reaction.

About a dozen years ago when I was a grad student in anthropology, I was on a field expedition in the high mountains in the western US (for obvious reasons I can’t specify where).

This field work took us deep into the backcountry at elevations above 8,000 feet, and we had to make do with very basic survey and…

When I was 6 my uncle got into a horrible accident. He was an engineer and a compressor blew up in his face as he was working on it. He was brain dead immediately but they rushed him to the hospital and he was on life support. None of us kids were allowed to go to the hospital but we all knew what was happening of…