Infinity Elephants

Vi Hart-where were you when I was learning math?!?!?

The Doppler Effect

A much younger, British version of Bill Nye.

The kid is good.

Consider This

In "It's a Wonderful Life" George offers to lasso the moon for Mary. Now, if he had been serious about it, he could have summitted the peak of a certain mountain and stood as close to the moon as possible without actually leaving the earth.

Ok, so, the earth isn’t a perfect sphere-nothing unexpected there. My favorite science guy,Robert Krulwich, compares its actual shape to a slightly deflated beach ball that someone’s sat on and left an indentation-an “oblate spheroid” as mathematicians would call it. There's a bluge making some places on earth closer to things in outer space than others.


It’s common knowledge that at 29,035 above sea level, Mount Everest is the highest point on earth-IF “highest” is defined starting at sea level. When thinking of the highest point as the point farthest from the center of the earth, Mount Everest isn’t the winner. Neither is K2, or Mount McKinley.

Grab your gear and a Spanish dictionary kids, we’re going to Ecuador. Yep, Mount Chimborazo in the Andes Mountains is the farthest point from the center of the earth, and thus-the closest point to the moon and outer space, which is where George should have gone. According to Joseph Senne, an engineer/surveyor, Chimorazo sits 1.5 miles higher on the bulge than Everest.

The Bad List

Ranking System
1-Meh.
2-Irritation & annoyance.
3-Strong dislike.
4-My sanity is at stake.
5-Horrible.

The Bad List:
Bananas in fruit salad-1
Removing Wallpaper-3
Dents and dings-2
Being micro-managed-4
Non Venomous Snakes-1
Venomous Snakes-4
Any type of snake slithering around in the house-5


Okay, so maybe I saw a snake in the house today.

Possimpible

How do you stand out from all of the other job hunters? Simple. Hire Barney Stinson to build your video resume.

It would be possimpible to not land a awesome job.

Antipodes

So, you go out to your back yard and you start digging-straight down. You dig and dig and dig all the while thinking "I can't wait to hang out with Jackie Chan, we'll grab some dim sum and then maybe we'll take a jog on the Great Wall." Then suddenly, you break through the earths crust and you're drowning. "This isn't China", you think to yourself. Nope, you're in the Indian Ocean. If you had taken a look at the map of antipodes Ze Frank created, you'd have known that if you live pretty much anywhere in any of the 48 contiguous states you should have considered investing in some diving gear before you started digging. Well now you know.