The AsapSCIENCE guys are back explaining some of the reasons why men lose their hair, and how it can – or not – be related to your mother’s day.
Learn something new in 2 minutes and sound smarter at your next cocktail hour!
Start your year off with these cool science facts
Time for some more interesting facts to make your head explode! Now you can sound even smarter around your friends with these simple but super fun facts about life!
Written and created by Mitchell Moffit (twitter @mitchellmoffit) and Gregory Brown (twitter @whalewatchmeplz).
The evolution of the world compressed into 24 hours
The fab, fun guys as AsapSCIENCE have a new two minute science lesson for us today.
If you were to compress the evolution of the world into one 24 hour period, this is how 4.5 billion years would play out.
Cool. Love these guys.
AsapSCIENCE: Your brain on drugs – Alcohol
Loving this series. I’ve always been curious about how and why things happen.
If you liked this, check out the rest of the fab videos explaining multitudes of things on their YouTube channel by clicking here.
How orgasms work – science in three minutes
I’ve honestly always wanted to know this – exactly what happens in what parts of the body and how it plays out differently in men and women.
I think this if fascinating. And pretty cool that you can wrap your head around this in 3 minutes.
New: Needle-less injections soon a reality
An MIT lab has come up with a painless, controlled way of shooting medicine through the skin without using needles.
The jet injector device uses a small, powerful magnet and electric current to inject drugs at nearly the speed of sound. Changes in the electric current allow the injector to work in two phases — a high-speed phase to enter the skin and reach a certain depth, and a lower-pressure phase to deliver the drug in a slow stream that allows for absorption.
“If you are afraid of needles and have to frequently self-inject, compliance can be an issue,” said Catherine Hogan, a research scientist in MIT’s department of mechanical engineering. “We think this kind of technology … gets around some of the phobias that people may have about needles.”
The jet injector delivers its drugs through an opening as wide as a mosquito’s proboscis.
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Bill Nye – “The Science Guy” – booed in Texas for saying the moon reflects the sun
Bill Nye, the harmless children’s edu-tainer known as “The Science Guy,” was recently in Waco, TX, to participate in McLennan Community College’s Distinguished Lecture Series. He gave two lectures on such topics as global warming, Mars exploration, and energy consumption.
Nye somehow managed to offend a group of adults in Waco when he suggested that the moon does not emit light, but instead reflects the light of the sun.
As even most elementary-school graduates know, the moon reflects the light of the sun but produces no light of its own.
But don’t tell that to the good people of Waco, who were “visibly angered by what some perceived as irreverence,” according to the Waco Tribune.
Nye got people riled up when he brought up Genesis 1:16, which reads: “God made two great lights — the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.”
The lesser light he pointed out, is not a light at all, but only a reflector.
At this point, several people in the audience stormed out in fury. One woman yelled “We believe in God!” and left with three children, thus ensuring that people across America would read about the incident and conclude that Waco is as nutty as they’d always suspected.
This story originally appeared in the Waco Tribune, but the newspaper has mysteriously pulled its story from the online version, presumably to avoid further embarrassment.
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