Introducing the book

Another funny video, this time
sent to me by CeasarsGhost.

A 500 year old helpdesk call.

Walking Fish

I thought this would make a nice
first video post. In a couple hundred million years, this guy might be pretty important.

How Godzilla works

The science of Godzilla explains all that formidable weaponry, and what a 60,000 ton dinosaur eats.

Finding a photo of Lincoln at 30.

Very interesting account of the attempts to verify that an early photo of an unknown man was actually Abraham Lincoln.



Daguerreotype of Young Abraham Lincoln

Nap against heart disease

A new study from Greece finds that you could cut your chance of dying from a heart attack by 37% if you only sacked out at work after lunch.



I'm sure that's right, but would you really trust your co-workers not to take advantage of you while you were out?

Giant floating fruit

First it was Spaceship One.



Then Bigelow Aerospace.



Then Blue Origin.



Now...at the close of the first decade of the millennium...an intrepid band of artists using the super-science of the 21st century unleashes upon an unsuspecting state:



Geostationary Banana Over Texas



Thanks to Spaceman Spiff for the link.