In the 1960s, when some were exploring the mysteries of outer space and quantum mechanics, one engineer noticed an extraordinary unexplained phenomenon in shampoo. The sudden, energetic, and seemingly spontaneous bursts of liquid that seemed to randomly squirt out from ordinary shampoo were a mystery for forty years. Here’s why your shampoo, while being poured, sometimes leaps up and tries to get you. More »
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An astonishing shampoo-related physics mystery
Windows/Linux/Android (4.0+): Most Android backup tools require root, or run from your phone and save your data to your SD card. Simple ADB Backup is different. The app runs from and backs up your phone’s data to your desktop, and does it all without root. More »
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Simple ADB Backup Backs Up Your Android Phone from the Desktop, No Root Required
There’s nothing quite like getting heavily sedated and having a big ol’ camera crammed down your throat so that doctors can take a look at your esophagus and cut out a little peice to study in the lab. A fun Friday night. Fortunately, endoscopy doesn’t have to be like that too much longer thanks to a small, easily-swallowable endoscope that requires no sedation at all, and returns a full 3D rendering. More »
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Tiny Pill-Shaped Cameras Make Endoscopy Easy To Swallow
If you’re ever beset by a strange and distinct feeling that you can’t quite name, you’re not alone. Just as the English language has pulled in loanwords like “schadenfreude” to name emotions with no English equivalent, there are a number of words other languages use to describe emotions still unnamed in English. Designer Pei-Ying Lin has charted a handful of these emotions , which are ready for your linguistic consideration. More »
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A Chart of Emotions that Have No Names in the English Language
No offense to James Earl Jones, but I can’t imagine how anybody could watch the above video of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s little known tryout in the role of Darth Vader, and not see he makes the superior Sith Lord. I mean, it’s not even close. Come on, George. You know you have one more Special Edition left in you before you go. Tell you what — you include this vocal track, and I’ll forgive you for inserting Jar Jar into all the Dagobah scenes, or whatever other nonsense you had planned before we fanboys drove you screaming into retirement. More »
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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Great Darth Vader or the Greatest Darth Vader?
We already knew Ken Jennings thought IBM’s Jeopardy-winning supercomputer was a dick , but he’s not alone. Developers at IBM were forced to wipe part of Watson’s memory once they realized their hyperintelligent computer had turned into a bit of a smartass. More »
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The Smartest Computer in the World Also Has the Dirtiest Mouth
Celebrated geneticist James Watson, one of several researchers who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of DNA, has just published what can only be called a cancer manifesto in Open Biology . It’s full of fairly harsh criticisms for current cancer researchers, but also suggests several ways forward in the “war on cancer.” Among other claims, Watson asserts that antioxidants like vitamin C — often recommended as cancer-prevention supplements — could be causing some forms of cancer. He also has harsh words for personalized medicine, and the laziness of cancer researchers. More »
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James Watson Says Antioxidants May Actually Be Causing Cancer
Intel’s talking about its new stuff today at CES. Some of it’s new, some of it we’ve heard before. But we’ll let you know everything important that goes down today. More »
The composition being performed in this video is entitled “Nasciturus”, and it’s one of the many pieces of contemporary classical music created by Iamus — who just so happens to be a computer cluster housed in Spain’s University of Málaga. More »
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This classical music was created by a supercomputer in less than a second
Windows 8 can take some getting used to. While the desktop app works very much like Windows 7, there are plenty of new shortcuts, options, and tricks built into the operating system. Think you know how to use it like a pro? Here are a few Windows 8 features that you probably haven’t found yet. More »
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Six Hidden Windows 8 Features You Can’t Live Without