Articles Archive for October 2007

Zombie Defense Kit
Posted in General on 25 October 2007

I get a kick out of zombies. I like shooting them in video games, watching them in movies and reading weird theories about zombie invasions. When I stumbled upon this super cool zombie defense kit, I had to share it. The idea is simple, put together a handful of items that you [...]

Is The Earth Doomed?
Posted in Science on 24 October 2007

Recently you may have heard a lot about Al Gore, global warming (or climate change), and the energy crisis. But what are we supposed to make of all this? New evidence presented to the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change may shed new light on this problem. The History channel recently aired a special on just [...]

Possibility of life on Iapetus
Posted in Space on 15 October 2007

Saturn’s moon Iapetus has recently come under some scrutiny from the scientific community. New images from the Cassini-Huygens probe seem to show dark splotches of organic mater on the surface of the moon. Unfortunately the article in question seems to be not written by somebody with a scientific background and gives little detail [...]

Meteor Illness Revisited
Posted in Science on 2 October 2007

A week or so ago we covered a story about a series of illnesses apparently caused by a meteor impact. A follow up report by how stuff works sheds some light on what really happened.
It turns out that it was not some alien space flu that was released on impact, nor was it radiation. [...]

Underground wonders
Posted in General on 1 October 2007

The Web Urbanist had a great post highlighting some of the fascinating human created underground areas from around the world. They range from ancient catacombs to the huge labyrinth under Disney’s Magic Kingdom.
Some of the images look to have a bit of post processing done to make them really pop. The site has [...]