Here we have a fun and frustrating little game that exploits our engineering skills. How to build a stable bridge is what this game is all about. At each level of the game you're given a limited amount of imaginary cash with which to purchase your beams and supports. It's usually just enough to get the job done, if you do it right. Which isn't so easy.
fun, but I would like to get longer lengths of material.
Chances are you've played Rock, Paper, Scissors, but how do you calculate your strategy, if you have one at all? In Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life, physicist Len Fisher points out that putting yourself in your opponent's mindset is a key to success in the game.
I always choose scissors, with mixed results.
Not since Harry and the Hendersons has the legend of Bigfoot, aka Sasquatch, aka Yowie, captured the attention of the country so thoroughly. This week, a pair of men from northern Georgia claimed they have found the body of the so-called Georgia Gorilla, and are keeping the remains in a chest freezer.
I recently read on MSN that the two DNA tests that were performed on the supposed bigfoot corpse yeilded two different results one human and the other opossum.
Camping's a blast. That is, until your sleeping bag turns into a sweat-soaked biohazard, the massive boots rip up your feet and a weak headlamp sends you stumbling through a patch of poison oak. Enter technology. The newest camping gear utilizes ultra-advanced material—everything from high-lumen LEDs to ceramic particles to chemical coatings—to make the lightest, strongest, and most comfortable gear yet. Meaning you can devote your energies to something important. More s'mores anyone?
The point of camping is getting to the outdoors and having a challenge. If technology makes renders camping easy and it is like you are at home what's the point?
Widely recognized as the most important sea bird habitat on Earth, Gough Island is a geographically perfect place for the animals to raise their young. It is one of the most remote places in the South Atlantic, nearly 2000 miles from both Africa and South America and 220 miles from the next nearest island in its archipelago. It is this isolation which has allowed its ecosystem to remain a nearly perfect home for the 22 bird species that seek its shelter in order to breed.
To be fair, we did affect them by bringing a new species to their island and that one event has effected the island in a huge way, so it is our fault.
Bioplastics, like biofuels, are on the rise as consumers demand alternatives to fossil fuel-based plastics and big business take their wants seriously. Everything from shopping bags to clamshell containers are being reengineered out of bio-based packaging in the hope of finding a truly disposable container; one that, instead of ending up floating in the ocean, will quickly decompose underground. That ideal, as you might expect, is not quite so simple. And already, our two leading alternative bag types are falling short of the hype.
If those bags need anaerobic conditions to break down, wouldn't an oxygen starved landfill be a good place for them?
I'm really starting to get the term 'Celestial bodies'.
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