Known for their intricate and mind exploding videos, OK Go has truly outdone themselves this time. Well, actually, Syyn Labs have outdone it for them. The music video for OK Go’s single This Too Shall Pass is an amazing example of a Rube Goldberg Machine. Just try not to watch it more than once. I dare you.
Here’s a science mystery for you: for some reason, dogs can’t help but react to the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit theme song. I’m sure there is a perfectly good explanation for this beyond the fact that it is just a purely amazing show. It more than likely has something to do with frequencies, but instead of trying to figure it out, have a look at 35 videos displaying this K-9 phenomenon.
A new study has shown that bats can hold their own when it comes to getting wasted.
The idea behind it is that bats consume a lot of fruit and some of that fruit most definitely ferments, creating some natural sweet berry wine. To see how these little guys deal with natural predators slipping roofies into their meals, researchers from Canada decided to run a controlled test where a group of bats ingested sugar water that was spiked with 1.5% alcohol and the other group was sailing straight and narrow. The two groups were then sent through an obstacle course. As it turns out, due to bats having an alcoholic history of millions of years, the bats that consumed alcohol were not effected at all. Both groups made it through the obstacle course with the same amount of flying colours.
Ars Technica has more on this story.
Probably not. But now scientists can find out for sure! New research has found that there are microscopic structures hidden in the bones of dinosaurs that contain hued pigments.
For more on this life shattering information, click here.
Word on the street is dolphins are genetically more like humans than any other land animal. A new study has scientists suggesting that we refer to them has “non-human persons” due to their vast intelligence. This makes chimpanzees look like uncles-in-law compared to dolphins when it comes to relating ourselves to the animal kingdom. Read more about how great our new wild creature cousins are here.
It has become scientific fact that octopuses actually enjoy playing with Rubik’s cubes. The original purpose of giving octopuses Rubik’s cubes was to find out wether or not they prefer a side (right-handed or left-handed) or if they are multidextrous. What the scientists at SeaLife marine park in Weymouth, UK found was that octopuses actually have 6 arms and 2 legs, making their name totally inaccurate.
Octopuses have yet to figure out how to complete the puzzle.
It seems that the population problem is now universal. Photographs that were taken by the Hubble telescope portray what seems to be the Universe as it appeared when it was first born. These baby photos were released on January 6th, 2010. I guess that it’s interesting because scientists can now look at how it all began (which is what some other articles seem to be writing about), but what happens when this new Universe gets a little bigger? I say we take it down a few galaxy by creating a black hole with the Large Hadron Collider.
Carl Sagan – ‘A Glorious Dawn’ ft Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remixed) from Levo75 on Vimeo.
Drop that Purell! I know, I know, there are a lot of germs out there. But we’ve lived together this long, right? Why stop now?
A new study made by the Northwestern University has provided evidence as to why we should stop this war on germs.
For some reason this is only the first study to look at how early microbial exposures affect the inflammatory processes related to diseases that come with age. They have actually found that exposure to microbes early in life may actually protect people from cardiovascular diseases that can lead to death as an adult.
Click here for a great article and some great quotes on the subject.
THIS JUST IN! Purell is actually made of billions of tiny Marks that scrub your skin and then lay eggs to hatch more, less sanitary Marks.
THIS JUST IN!
We left out a very important part of the Large Hadron Collider’s history! On November 3rd the LHC began to overheat. When scientists rushed to the scene to assess the problem, they found a piece of baguette lodged in the supercooled magnets in sector 81. Some scientists have theorized that a time traveling bird, sent from the future, was sent to sabotage the experiment. We here at Clark + Huot have hypothesized that a cyborg bird from the future came back in time to drop Mark in the Collider.
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