I read a very interesting article about the development of the human brain in the Observer recently. But there was one very big problem with it - the headline. Continue reading →
-
All posts
- 4 Card Puzzle
- Pillow illusion
- Self siphoning beads
- The sound from a vibrating rod
- Why is purple weird? A video for the Royal Institution
- Arguing with Matt Parker about Pi and Tau
- Talking about Benford’s Law for Numberphile
- Make your socks last longer with a Euclidean rubber glove switch
- Turning a webcam into an infrared camera
- RSS feed for Reddit stories that score over 1000 (or any score you like)
- My bacon was an optical illusion this morning
- How much phone battery can you save by switching to dark wallpapers and themes?
- Use a Google Apps Account To Authenticate Outgoing Mail From Your Regular Gmail Account
- Audio Illusion – do you hear the missing fundamental?
- How to make a fire tornado
- Our Brains Didn’t Evolve – the problem with headlines
- A tool I made for Londoners that makes journey planning quicker
- Magnetic levitation and ferrofluid
- 3D pictures (of me and Ben Miller)
- Keyboard shortcut for Google’s “did you mean”
- Interesting freecycle freebiejeebies scam and a dubious experiment
- The Droste effect – image recursion
- Shapes of constant width – coins from around the world
- How 3D cinema works
- Use Gmail filters to get only the facebook notifications you care about
- A sketch about Mastermind
- Burning paper with giant steel balls
- How to cheat with Frank Benford
- The curious case of Magenta
- How I use… Freecycle/Freegle: gmail filters
- Venn Vs Euler: The Diagrams
- Bryan Adams Diagrams
- 50p coins make great wheels
- Magnetic balls: reloaded
- How I use… Firefox: keyboard shortcuts
- Magnetic balls: the beginning
Tags
3D 50p avatar bookmarklet bryan adams buy coins colour comedy diagram diamagnetism euler evolution explainer facebook ferrofluid filters freebiejeebies freecycle freegle gmail greasemonkey guide how I use images keyboard shortcuts levitation magenta magnet ball geometry Magnets Mastermind maths media photography photoshop pyrolytic graphite recursion scam Science solids of constant width statistics Technology travel venn videoCategories
© 2013. Steve Mould's nerdy blog. Powered by WordPress. Theme design by WPShoppe. Performance Optimization WordPress Plugins by W3 EDGE