Swans on Tea

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. Churchill, inspired by Twain, pre-internet.
Genepax Unveils a Car That Runs on Water and Air
Try again, you sensationalizing hacks. Versions of this story have spread across the web like a bad rash.
Their new [...]

Volunteers asked to help find dead spacecraft on Mars
HiRISE software developer Guy McArthur, also at the University of Arizona, has invited the public to scan these images for signs of the Mars Polar Lander. It’s a huge challenge because although there are only 18 images, each of them is enormous – typically 1.6 billion pixels.
“If [...]

There’s a video out there in the ether that purports to measure time dilation in a car. I’ve already shown that this can, and does, happen, but you need to have some pretty expensive toys at your disposal to make the measurement.
For a good experiment (I’m perhaps charitably assuming this wasn’t just an out-and-out [...]

Ketchup
A whole lot about the king of condiments, without getting into shear thinning and thixotropic properties.
It explains why Barenaked Ladies can’t find the fancy dijon ketchup they want in “If I Had a $1,000,000″
What Heinz had done was come up with a condiment that pushed all five of these primal buttons. The taste of [...]

Name that tune in three elements
Best song of the 80s? Gold by Spandau Ballet. But it seems that the frilly-collared Spandau boys were far from original in their lyrical choice. According to a survey undertaken by Santiago Alvarez, in the department of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Barcelona, the most popular elements referred to [...]