Have a Minute? Smash 88 Alarm Clocks With Your Feet or Clean Out Your Inbox
One minute isn’t very long, but some pretty amazing things have been achieved over the span of sixty seconds—the time it takes for Hotmail to conquer your messy inbox. For instance, an illusionist in China once performed 5 teleportation illusions before his minute was up, a London man set a world record by smashing 88…
This solar “tornado” is five times larger than Earth
The Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a spectacular rotation of material in a solar prominence, which created a massive tornado-like feature on the Sun, five times bigger than the Earth. “This is perhaps the first time that such a huge solar tornado is filmed by an imager,” said Dr. Xing Li of Aberystwyth University, presenting his…
The Case for Ending Medical Research on Chimps
Can we really justify doing medical research on chimpanzees that we wouldn’t do on people? The more we learn about chimps, the more we realize they’re like humans in many important ways — and a recent report by the Institute of Medicine shows why biomedical research involving chimpanzees is mostly unncessary. In this piece, prominent…
