I made some drawings recently. For no particular purpose, really, other than to distract myself. And here is the joker: ...

Look! Listen! I've made a music video for your smooth start into the weekend: I finally realized I won't be able to do any paint...

Do you recognize the place? It's the lawn in front of the CERN Cafeteria ! This lovely scene is the backdrop of a picture puzzle, and ju...

The motion of fluids can be surprising, beautiful, and sometimes just funny to watch. At its annual meetings, the Division of Fluid Dynamics...

As previously mentioned, Germany has introduced a citizen test for immigrants. Spiegel Online now has the full version with 33 questions: T...

After you could recently test whether you qualify to be German , for Canada Day the Globe and Mail offers a similar questionaire "What...

On Friday I came across Corie Lok's blog who announces the "Nerdiest Science Mug Competition" and offers a DNA strand with th...

This press release from the White House is almost seven years old , but I think it is worthwhile to mention that the President of the United...

Next Sunday, on May 25, the Phoenix Mars Mission is supposed to land on Mars. In the meantime, here is fancy animation of a flight over the...

Last week, my brother had started to tidy up a cupboard at our parent's place where we had stored away toys and other stuff from our chi...

See the full photo here . Submitted by somebody called Alexis to Incredimazing , filed under the title How to Reform the US Educational Sys...

Spring finally arrived in Waterloo. Within a couple of days, the temperature rose by 15°C. The meters-high snow mountains in the yards and p...

If you have some time to kill this weekend, browse the websites of the exhibition "Design and the Elastic Mind" in realitas at the...

Ever wondered what happens if you use an algorithm to translate a text back and forth to French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish? Y...

Quantum mechanics is hazardous - make sure to wear a lab coat and protective goggles when handling delicate formulas! (Found under the headi...

The Photoelectric Effect Light falling on a metal plate can lead to emission of electrons, called the "photoelectric effect". Expe...

As every child in Germany knows, before and around Easter, hares are extemely busy, because they have to colour thousands of eggs and to hid...

You may have already come across this nice movie of a large-scale physics experiment : From Traffic jams without bottlenecks—experimental...

From Quantum Random Bit Generator Service via mathlog and wiskundemeisjes . Captcha : "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tel...

Skies over Frankfurt had been covered with thick rainclouds two weeks ago, and so I had missed the Lunar Eclipse of February 20/21 . But nev...