A few cartons of Birds Eye frozen cod fillets sit in the freezer of a small house in southern Nevada, US. It’s 4 in the morning. Suddenly, an agonisingly bright light sears through the kitchen – a 39 kiloton nuclear bomb has detonated just 400 metres away… Question:What happens to the cod fillets? We are […]
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How to go out on a limb, scientificalistically
A new study demonstrates how a daring scientist (or a team of daring scientists) can go about advancing a possibly controversial idea. The study, which contains the possibly daring idea, is: “Weapons Make the Man (Larger): Formidability Is Represented as Size and Strength in Humans,” Daniel M.T. Fessler [pictured here], Colin Holbrook, Jeffrey K. Snyder, […]
More about ‘The Slimeball’
Here’s more about The Slimeball: Shaving foam and baby diapers might not be the first key components to spring to mind if you were tasked with developing a gargantuan Non Lethal Weapon (NLW) for use against enemy warships. But spring they did, however, to the mind of Lieutenant Commander Daniel L. Whitehurst of the United […]
Invention priority? Hurtubise, Brown, and their arms
“I learned the hard way that there’s no bear spray that will stop a bear.” So says Troy Hurtubise in this old video (below) where he demonstrates some of his advanced technology. Today comes word that a man named David Brown was awarded a 2011 Invention Award for his crime-fighting armored glove. At a glance, […]