A handy device to confusticate and bebother those annoying loud talkers in the public sphere – The Speech Jammer ! A pretty brilliant application of regular boring old microphones and speakers. It’s basically like what happens to people who call into radio shows and forget to turn down the radio.
You guys! Earth has shields! There’ve been, you know, a couple dozen nuclear-scale explosions in our atmosphere from asteroids in the past 13 years or so.
I don’t usually like sharing “scary” news but it’s worth being aware of how germs are adapting to our use of antibiotics.
A fun tidbit about how we game developers use sneaky psychology to affect player behavior (in positive ways!). We do a lot more research about people than you might think.
This is old, but if you’ve never seen Victor Borge’s Inflationary Language bit, I find it great fun. (Grnine fun!)
Did you know … ? Apparently cordite makes a delicious chewing gum! Just don’t chew it too hard or your friends might get quite a surprise. It’s like Russian roulette for your tastebuds!