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Astrology, a Practical Test: Objects That Affect You at Birth

Dec 27th, 2009 | By mooeypoo | Category: Articles, Astronomy, Featured Articles, Physics

Astrologers claim that the positions of the planets and “Zodiac” signs (constellations of stars) at the moment of our birth – and generally throughout our lives – affect our personality, mood and affairs.
We are going to test this hypothesis.



Richard Saunders vs. Astrology

Dec 12th, 2009 | By mooeypoo | Category: Articles, Astronomy, Featured Articles, Party Trick

Richard Saunders (Australian Skeptics, Skeptic Zone podcast, and more) brings the astrologer back to Earth and away from fantasy.



TAM7 and SkepticZone Experiment

Jul 19th, 2009 | By mooeypoo | Category: Astronomy, Experiments, Featured Articles, Project News

Here it was again this year, The Amazing Meeting 7 in Las Vegas, organized by the James Randi Educational Foundations (JREF). As you may remember from last year’s updates, TAM is usually awesome and this year was no exception.



Losing Weight? Losing Mass!

May 7th, 2009 | By mooeypoo | Category: Articles, Featured Articles, Physics

The “losing weight” trend is one of the better outcomes of reality TV, and it encourages people to take charge of their lives and live a healthier life. But there’s one thing that bugs me about this trend: The terminology.



Richard Saunders in 3D (and 2D)

Jul 20th, 2008 | By mooeypoo | Category: Experiments, Featured Articles, Physics

A fun experiment with Richard Saunders and mooeypoo, demonstrating what happens when a 3D object (Richard\’s face) is transfered into a 2D surface (A piece of cloth).



A Party Trick for the Watery Dense..

Mar 30th, 2008 | By mooeypoo | Category: Experiments, Featured Articles, Party Trick, Physics

Water is dense. Alcohol is Dense. But they’re not the same density, no siree. They’re differently densed. Which means we can use that to our advantage. And we do, in this experiment.
Well, this is more of a “Show off your geektitude” physics trick that will amaze and enchant your buddies anywhere! Okay, well, maybe not [...]



Goofing around with Non-Newtonian [Goo] Fluid

Mar 16th, 2008 | By mooeypoo | Category: Chemistry, Experiments, Featured Articles

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, but in this case, I think even she will agree to make an exception. Not only am I going to play with this food, you should too. It’s way too fun to pass on.



Duckies and the Doppler Effect

Mar 2nd, 2008 | By mooeypoo | Category: Astronomy, Experiments, Featured Articles, Physics

You probably hear this every day, that weird phenomenon sounds makes when it whooshes you by quickly. In fact, the entire ‘whoosh’ effect – that ‘zzzzzzzzzzzhoooooooom!’ that seems all children are familiar with and use as a description for a passing car is a great hint that something is going on.