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    Losing Weight? Losing Mass!

    I love “The Biggest Loser“, I watch it weekly and although I am not really doing all their workouts, watching these men and women train hard and transform their lives inspires me to get my buttocks off my computer chair and move myself to the gym too. It’s a great show, really.
    The “losing weight” trend [...]

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Losing Weight? Losing Mass!

I love "The Biggest Loser", I watch it weekly and although I am not really doing all their workouts, watching ...

featuredimage Richard Saunders in 3D (and 2D)

If you've been following my skeptical adventures, you know I have attended the Amazing Meeting 6 (organized by the James ...

featuredimage A Party Trick for the Watery Dense..

Water is dense. Alcohol is Dense. But they're not the same density, no siree. They're differently densed. Which means we ...

Goofing around with Non-Newtonian [Goo] Fluid

It's Goo! It's Solid! It's Goo! It's Solid! It's--- both??? My mom always told me never to play with my food, ...

featuredimage Duckies and the Doppler Effect

You probably hear this every day, that weird phenomenon sounds makes when it whooshes you by quickly. In fact, the ...

Blurbs

How could Ilan Ramon’s Diary Survive the Fall from Space?

A little while ago, the Israeli Museum in Jerusalem opened an exhibit featuring some of the torn, slightly burned pages of Col. Ilan Ramon’s personal diary from the shuttle Columbia. Ramon was the payload specialist onboard STS-107 (the spaceshuttle “Columbia”) that disintegrated during re-entry from space, killing all 7 crewmembers onboard. The diary survived the [...]

Biology

DNA Madness: Extracting your Own DNA in your Kitchen!

The human body is an incredible machine. Though far from being perfect, we have evolved to what we are today through a process that took millions of years of mutation and natural selection.
There is one little piece of us, though, that holds the secret to our existence, and the history of our species: The DNA.
My [...]

Physics

Losing Weight? Losing Mass!

I love “The Biggest Loser“, I watch it weekly and although I am not really doing all their workouts, watching these men and women train hard and transform their lives inspires me to get my buttocks off my computer chair and move myself to the gym too. It’s a great show, really.
The “losing weight” trend [...]