9 weeks of weather in 3 minutes
There are facts that just aren't apparent from our everyday perspective. Sometimes, in order to really get a scientific concept at the gut level, you have to seek out a different way to view the...
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Air pollution: the holy Hajj's health threat
[caption id="attachment_353684" align="alignnone" width="680"] Dr. Azhar Siddique[/caption] Reporting this week at the annual American Geophysical Union, scientists from UC Irvine discussed air...
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This is how blue the skies were when Beijing banned 2.5 million cars for two...
In Beijing, China banned 2.5 million cars from driving for 2 weeks to get this beautiful blue sky for a World War II commemorative parade. As soon as the parade was over, the ban was lifted, and the...
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How long can you really hold your breath?
The Guinness World Record for breath-holding belongs to Aleix Segura Vendrell, who managed 24 minutes and 3 seconds floating in a pool. How do Vendrell and others, like free divers and, er, David...
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Colorful children's respirators make breathing poisoned air fun
The WOOBI is a sad sign of the times. It's a toylike respirator system designed for the 300 million children living in severe air pollution. (more…)
View ArticleCar accident: video game physics IRL
To say that this video depicts "video game physics IRL," as I have in this headline, is quite stupid. At least in the sense that the world should not be taken to resemble its simulation, even in jest,...
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