Answering the old question “What would a quarter look like if it were masturbating?”

Parody? Looks more like a pair ‘o DD amirite.

I was reading about the Ashfall Fossil Beds in Nebraska the other day and came across this:

Sounds like a quark of nature.

If you were to design a very oxidative molecule, ClF3 would be a great attempt at doing so. It’s a highly asymmetric entity with sp3d hybridization. This makes it very polar. The halogens in general are very oxidative because they have 7 electrons in their outer valence shell and can easily accept an additional…

I liked the kid’s play-by-play commentary. He’s kinda the Joe Buck of science.

A funnel is still appropriate because it is just a diagram of the 4D spacetime which at the macro scale would still be proper to describe the spacetime in and around a black hole; whether our current understanding of what’s happening at the “surface” of a black hole, or inside one, is up for debate. The surface is of…

A funnel is still appropriate because it is just a diagram of the 4D spacetime which at the macro scale would still be proper to describe the spacetime in and around a black hole; whether our current understanding of what’s happening at the “surface” of a black hole, or inside one, is up for debate. The surface of the…

Lung on a chip? Afflatus!

The non-sentient smartphone is an electromagnetic radiation emitter, and since one of the definitions of give is to yield via consequence or effect, a smartphone can give you EM radiation which you receive/absorb via EM radiation’s interaction(s) with your matter.

Other non-sentient things give, too. A…

“Hey! I’m pretty strong too!” - Clay Pot

Porn stars may one day travel to Uranus. Doubt they’d want to visit the Virgo Cluster.

Newton got GPS satellites into space, but Einstein made them work properly.

Only thing I didn’t quite understand: was lead really used for neutron shielding here? If so, it’s highly ineffective for that (it’s reasonably effective for low-energy X-rays, a little less for high-energy X-rays). In general hydrocarbon compounds are best for neutron shielding; the light atoms allow for elastic…

Two interesting chemical compounds released as the body decomposes:

putrescine and cadaverine.

Physicians, as a general rule, are not prone to over-simplification. However over-simplification does happen on the marketing side of things. That's unfortunate. Saying someone has a "chemical imbalance" is not science (or medicine), so no one I know says that... although to lump many brain-related health issues under…

An increased hardness/density would imply smaller intramolecular distances in this composite.

OK, so refer to the 0.2 micron cube as a 2000 angstrom cube... whose volume would be 2000*2000*2000=8 billion cubic angstroms. Then just ask Google to convert that for you.

For a sphere, any radii smaller then unity will always yield a sphere whose volume is smaller than 4/3*pi. For a cube, any edge <1 always yields a cube whose volume is smaller than its edge length. Another way of saying this is x^3<1 for any x<1, and x^3>1 for any x>1.

Yeah, this has a volume of ~0.01 μm^3, and an E. Coli has an average volume of about 0.6 μm^3... and 0.6/0.01 = 60. So, they're small. But not >5 orders of magnitude (~100,000 times) smaller than E. Coli.

Engadget said you could fit 150 of them inside an E. Coli.

So the copy/paste got screwed up I guess in between…