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The article When Brain Damage Helps contains a logic problem that is much easier for somebody with a specific type of brain damage to solve.

I had no problem solving it, so I assume that means I have brain damage (actually, about 43% of the non-brain damaged people were able to solve it compared to 80% of brain damaged people, so I probably haven’t been lobotomized in my sleep). Awesome. I wonder what other super powers I have.

Human Fecal Transplants, and the doctor’s name is Aas. Now, I’ve heard EVERYTHING!

It seems like I may have blogged this once before (or something very much like it). Just in case though, here’s a New Scientist article that outlines 13 things that do not make sense.

I lean towards thinking it’s probably snake oil myself (things that sound too good to be true usually are, and conservation of momentum seems too real to get past), but the Electromagnetic Drive that Roger Shawyer claims to have developed still sounds really cool. It would be great if it was real — even though it almost certainly isn’t.

All this time, I thought that spacecrafts heated up on re-entry because of the friction of the atmosphere. According to the site, Science Facts that People Get Wrong, I’ve been quite wrong.

I hate being wrong.

Physicist, Richard Feynman, is a fascinating man. I could listen to him discuss his upbringing and his work on the atomic bomb, and his later research all night.

In The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, you can do just that — well, for about 50 minutes anyway. I find I want more. Check this out. It really is great.

I love the idea of a scientist super hero. We need more of that. Check out our heroic science teacher as he describes particle/wave duality and the double slit experiment — What the Bleep: Quantum Physics.

I’d never heard of Tidal Locking, the process by which the Moon/Earth system results in a moon whose rotation matches its orbital period.

Now that I have though, that is all kinds of cool.

All the water and all the air shows a graphic illustration of all the water on earth if it was combined into a single ball. Put up against the scale of the earth, it looks like there’s practically no water on earth at all.

That’s very surprising to me since I thought the earth was mostly water. Turns out, no.

They also have a graphic representation of the atmosphere if it was compressed into the pressure at sea level. There’s actually a bunch more of that than I would have guessed though compared to the size of the earth it also looks like practically nothing.

Check out this cool video of Octopus Attaching a Shark. There’s an unreasonable amount of start/stop buffering in the video which makes me feel like it’s 1998 again, but the video itself is really interesting.