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How To Cook Eggsmental_floss Blog - Aug 27, 2008 I think most cooks would assume that they know how to cook an egg: put it in boiling water for 10-15 minutes. But French cook (and molecular gastronomist) Hervé This disagrees: “Cooking eggs is really a question of … Also tagged: blogs, food and drink |
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The Arecibo Messagemental_floss Blog - Aug 19, 2008 Let’s say you’re a human with a big radio transmitter, who wants to send a message to the putative aliens out there light-years away, listening by their radio receivers. What would your message say? How would you … Also tagged: space, blogs, mathematics, astronomy, physics, math |
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Wacky Sci-Fi “Laws”mental_floss Blog - Aug 15, 2008 Sci-Fi writers seem to enjoy coining Laws: adages bearing their own names that live on past their appearances in Sci-Fi stories. Here are five of my favorites, plus one bonus law (actually a Principle) from the world … Also tagged: blogs, books, humor, pop culture |
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The Clock of the Long Nowmental_floss Blog - Jul 29, 2008 Most clocks are built to keep time on fairly short timescales: windup watches may run a few days between windings, torsion pendulum clocks go about a year between windings, battery-powered watches often go several … Also tagged: technology, blogs, gadgets, computers, antiquity |
mental_floss Blog - Jul 29, 2008
Recently, Stephen Colbert had a segment on his show where he celebrated a great honor: a spider being named after him. John Cleese said last week that having a lemur named after him was an honor he liked more than the …
mental_floss Blog - Jul 28, 2008
The American Museum of Natural History has posted an online exhibit called Picturing the Museum. Included are a series of archival photos showing old exhibits at their museum, the most interesting (to me, anyway) being …
Also tagged: education, blogs, history, photos, nature, antiquity, armchair field trip, super secret deal
mental_floss Blog - Jul 9, 2008
Torsten Reil gave a TED Talk in 2003 called Simulating Humans, describing his research on animating human characters in 3D. Reil discusses how traditional video game animation is static and repetitive: animators create …
Also tagged: games, technology, blogs, animation, computers
mental_floss Blog - Jun 24, 2008
I’ve wanted to play Will Wright’s next game, Spore, for years. I first wrote about Spore way back in February 2007, proudly and naively stating that “our wait will soon be over.” Well, I was right if by “soon” I meant …
Also tagged: games, technology, blogs, mathematics, computers, math
mental_floss Blog - Jun 20, 2008
George Dyson returns to TED with a seventeen-minute talk explaining the origins of the digital computer — in hilarious style. Briefly starting with Leibniz’s machine-based calculus proposal from 1679, Dyson takes us on …
Also tagged: technology, blogs, history, mathematics, computers, math, antiquity
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Required Viewing: The Machine That Changed the Worldmental_floss Blog - Jun 13, 2008 Andy Baio of Waxy.org has begun posting digitized versions of a 1992 documentary about personal computers entitled The Machine That Changed the World. Narrated by Frontline veteran Will Lyman, the WGBH Boston … Also tagged: technology, blogs, computers, inventions |