Most people know helium as a gas which is used in filling balloons and as a gas which can alter your voice, it raises the tone of your voice. This is because helium is light weight. But there is also a heavy gas called sulfur hexafluoride which does the opposite: it lowers the tone of [...]
8Sep08
Sulfur Hexafluoride
31Aug08
Physics of the impossible
Have you ever been wondering about how the universe got its spots? (Also a nice book by the way) Or do you wonder whether time-travel is possible? Or when teleportation is going to bring you from behind your computer to the other side of the planet within a second? If you think all these science-fiction-like [...]
25Aug08
Italo disco music
Quite a lot of people have heard about (synthpop) artists from the 80′s like Aha, Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, New Order, Ultravox etc. At least the artists I name here are really what most people agree typical 80′s music, with quite an electronic influence in them. Anyway, to get my real point, today I found out [...]
10Aug08
Masters of Doom
Have you played or heard of games like Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D and Doom and Quake? I did. These games belong to the all time classics, written by Id Software. What is even more interesting about these games is that there is a whole story behind each of them. And that story has been put [...]