Astronomers are reporting that they have taken the measure of the biggest, baddest black holes yet found in the universe, abyssal yawns 10 times the size of our solar system into which billions of Suns have vanished like a guilty thought.
How to See a Supernova This Weekend From Your Backyard
Topic: Current Events
11:07 pm EDT, Sep 1, 2011
Starting this weekend, the closest supernova found in at least 25 years will be visible from your backyard with just binoculars or a small telescope. The exploding white dwarf star is currently brightening in the Pinwheel Galaxy, nestled, from our perspective, within the Big Dipper.
The Canadian government wants a stealth snowmobile
Topic: Current Events
11:03 pm EDT, Aug 27, 2011
Why Canada needs a stealth snowmobile is a question best not asked. The solicitation laments that current snowmobile engines are too loud for “missions where covertness may be required,” but doesn’t bother to list any.
Unsteady Forklift Smashes $1 Million Worth of Wine, and a Nation Mourns
Topic: Current Events
9:44 pm EDT, Jul 23, 2011
This is one spill that's won't be rubbed out easily. That's because this was no bottom-shelf wine. 462 cases of Australian wine, each bottle valued at $185 Australian dollars (about $200), fell 20 feet off a forklift as it was being loaded onto a ship Thursday.
Only one case of the 2010 Mollydooker Velvet Glove shiraz survived the drop, with the other 461 – a total of 5,532 bottles of the primo vino – smashing onto the Adelaide wharf. The loss totals more than AUD$1 million for Australian winemaker Sparky Marquis.
“It was like a murder scene. There was red everywhere," Marquis said.
The Pleasures of Cooking While Drunk with Hannah Hart - My Drunk Kitchen
Topic: Current Events
3:48 pm EDT, Jun 26, 2011
Hannah Hart is funny when she's drunk. She's funny when she's sober too, but when she's drunk her eyes get all droopy and she asks questions like, "Do you ever notice that when someone makes something from scratch, that suddenly means they're better than you?" Hart poses this question while clutching a glass of rosé on the most recent episode of her Web-video cooking series, My Drunk Kitchen. The rest of the episode features Hart drinking the wine; mixing milk, sugar and vanilla in a Ziploc bag; drinking more wine; wondering how to turn the bag into ice cream; dropping the bag on the floor; drinking more wine and then eating store-bought ice cream from the carton. "I made this from the freezer," she explains at the end.
Hart, 24, has been posting My Drunk Kitchen videos for less than three months. So far, there are eight episodes. The concept is pretty simple. "In the beginning of the video, I'm sober," explains Hart. "And in the end, I'm drunk. Maybe if I'm lucky, I've cooked something too."
