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Month: September 2017

The Composition of Human Fart Gas

The Composition of Human Fart Gas

We’re still packing up to move so short “science lite” posts will continue until we get settled in on the other side of the country. Today’s post is about something you’ve all been wanting to know about: human fart gas! HUMAN FART GAS Have you ever been kept from sleeping at night pondering what farts were made of? Ponder no longer. You can now sleep well at night because the knowledge you seek is here at hand! Strangely enough, fart gas…

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SL-1 Reactor Accident and Nuclear Reactor Fatalities

SL-1 Reactor Accident and Nuclear Reactor Fatalities

The above image is a photo of the mangled insides of the SL-1 reactor after its criticality excursion accident. We’re still in science-lite mode here until the move across the country is done. Writing to maximize SEO is still disabled. Packing and moving is not my idea of a good time.   Today’s science-lite offering is a video made by the now-defunct Atomic Energy Commission about the SL-1 Reactor accident in 1961. Playtime is approximately 40 minutes: The video includes footage…

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Element 118: Oganesson

Element 118: Oganesson

My blog posts are going to continue to be science-lite until we’re done with our move from Maine to Idaho, sometime in mid-October.  This week’s science-lite offering is our newest element, the element 188, which was officially named  just last year as Oganesson, after physicist Yuri Oganessian, who headed the joint Russian-American team that made the discovery of the element in 2006.  They collided atoms of California-249 and Calcium-48 to produce three – and maybe even four – atoms of…

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The Most Elegant Periodic Table Ever

The Most Elegant Periodic Table Ever

My blog posts are going to be science-lite until we’re done with our move from Maine to Idaho.  This week’s offering is the most elegant periodic table every drafted.  It is a thing a beauty, stacking the elements by the number of orbitals and arranging them geometrically by type and reactivity.  If you grok physical chemistry, you will really be blown away.  If you don’t grok physical chemistry, then please just appreciate the geometry beauty inherit in the order of…

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The Best USGS Topo Map Ever!

The Best USGS Topo Map Ever!

My blog posts are going to be science-lite until we’re done with our move from Maine to Idaho.  This week’s offering is the Rozel Point SW Utah 7.5 minute topo map. I discovered this topo while working on a project involving the Rozel Point Oil Field, which is mostly under the Great Salt Lake.  Anyway, I believe that just by looking at this topo, you will discover the great humor and awesomeness of it.  Words often fail to describe this…

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