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Category Archives: Strange Science
Strange Science: Steampunk Mad Science Fair Coming to Steamposium!
If you plan to attend Steamposium in Seattle October 27-29, you may want to check out their Mad Science Fair! If you’re a maker, there’s still time to enter the science fair, too! We at Mad Scientist Journal just found out … Continue reading
Strange Science: Ancient Greek Temples on Fault Lines?
A geologist researching fault lines in Greece has hypothesized that the ancient Greeks may have intentionally built their temples on fault lines, in order to expose themselves to prophetic visions caused by hallucination. The idea of the Pythia, the high … Continue reading
Strange Science: Unidentified Gelatinous Spheres
Divers and scientists are baffled by the appearance of large gelatinous spheres, up to a meter across, that have appeared in the ocean off the west coast of Norway, among other locations. Spotted in cold, northern locales and off the … Continue reading
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Strange Science: Maillardet’s Automaton
In the early nineteenth century, a Swiss mechanician built an automaton that could write poetry and draw pictures. Granted, the poetry and pictures it could draw were pre-programmed, but the memory involved in the machine is the equivalent of slight … Continue reading
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Strange Science: The Wild, Wild, Russian West
Few things are as evocative of America’s Old West as the tumbleweed, but this plant is not native to North America and it’s a huge problem. Kali tragus, more commonly known as Russian thistle, is an invasive weed brought over … Continue reading
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Strange Science: Hexadecimal Word Colors
If you’re familiar with hexadecimal codes, a shortcut for representing binary, which can be used to get a brilliant variety of colors for webpages, you may be interested in this website, called #c0ffee is the color. On this page, you … Continue reading
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Strange Science: Another Eclipse in 2024
Did you miss the eclipse on Monday? The good news is that you don’t have to wait long until the next total solar eclipse. There will be another in 2024. What’s strange about the next eclipse, though, is that while … Continue reading
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Strange Science: Prehistoric Crocodile Named after Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead
Just when you thought science couldn’t get any cooler, paleontologists recently reexamined fossil evidence of a prehistoric giant crocodile and determined that an additional species had been identified in the fossil record. They also decided to give this crocodile an … Continue reading
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Strange Science: Sugar, Spice, Chemical X…?
We recently bought a bag of xanthan gum. We wanted to try and make gluten free pancakes from scratch, and this was one of the ingredients. Xanthan gum is one of those things that appears on different food ingredient labels, … Continue reading
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Strange Science: Dialects and Physics?
A mathematician has suggested that the distribution of dialects can be linked to the physics of bubbles. Sounds weird? There seems to be something to this idea. Just as small bubbles merge into larger ones in the tub, groups of dialect … Continue reading
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