School of Fail

Poor Liberal Arts Grads

JoeO — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 06:00:00 -0700

All the Better to Hear You With

JoeO — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:00:00 -0800

Cornell bioengineers and physicians have created an artificial ear that looks and acts like a natural ear, giving new hope to thousands of children born with a congenital deformity called microtia.

Make Your Own Halloween Slime!

JoeO — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 03:00:00 -0700

Check out more spook, slimmy stuff here!

Math is Beautiful

JoeO — Sun, 08 Dec 2013 06:00:00 -0800

Well This is a Disaster

NickCB — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 06:00:00 -0800

Never Interview a Scientist

JoeO — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 09:00:00 -0800

Thousands of Internet Images Were Put Together to Make a Time Lapse Video

Wed, 20 May 2015 09:00:00 -0700

Watch beautiful locations in the world change over time through the compilation of internet pictures that create a time lapse.

Dutch Designer Creates New Font for Dyslexic People

chutzell — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 05:00:00 -0800

A new font, designed by Dutch designer Christian Boer is making it easier for people who suffer from dyslexia to process text.

The typeface, called Dyslexie, incorporates a number of tweaks to traditional fonts, which prevent someone from rotating, or mirroring the letters.

Boer, who suffers from dyslexia himself, designed the letters with heavier bottom portions to prevent a reader from turning them upside down, added extra tails, increased spacing between letters and words and lengthened ascenders and descenders to better distinguish between characters.

Boer discussed the font in a TED talk in 2011, and it is currently on display at the 2014 Istanbul Design Biennial.

Watch This Space Intern Made Educational Video Set to *NSYNC and Feel Your Second-Hand Embarrassment Skyrocket

kacerosky — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 11:00:00 -0700

Good thing the New Horizons spacecraft can't be embarrassed.

Why Do Bad Teachers Prosper?

JoeO — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 08:00:00 -0800

This Is a Human Eye, Not a Tree

JoeO — Sun, 18 May 2014 08:00:00 -0700

Things I Learned From ER, Not Biology

JoeO — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:00:00 -0800

Implanting Memories

JoeO — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 04:00:00 -0700

The Elements Song

JoeO — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 03:00:00 -0800

Science for President!

NickCB — Mon, 01 Jan 1900 00:00:00 -0800

A Teacher Posts Kindergarten Kid's Quotes on Instagram and They Are Amazing

kristyb — Sun, 31 May 2015 10:00:00 -0700

Instagram user @livefromsnacktime is a kindergarten teacher in New York City, according to their profile, who is posting quotes from their classroom. Here are some of the most inspiring quotes straight from the mouths of babes.

Far Too Soon!

JoeO — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 03:00:00 -0700

That Escalated Quickly

JoeO — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 09:00:00 -0800

How to Address Amy Poehler at Your Graduation Ceremony

JoeO — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:00:00 -0700

Every Student Deserves A Yopportunity

finelytuned — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:00:00 -0800

I Suppose That Is Correct

JoeO — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 09:00:00 -0800

Green Walls

JoeO — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 08:00:00 -0700

These vegetated surfaces don't just look pretty. They have other benefits as well, including cooling city blocks, reducing loud noises, and improving a building's energy efficiency.What's more, a recent modeling study shows that green walls can potentially reduce large amounts of air pollution in what's called a "street canyon," or the corridor between tall buildings.

Remembering the Challenger

JoeO — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:01:00 -0800

On January 28th 1986 the challenger broke apart as it ascended into our atmosphere. Today marks the anniversary of the brave women and men who risked everything to further human knowledge. -JH

Kangaroos Are Pentapedal

JoeO — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 08:00:00 -0700

Ideally This Would Happen with 100 Percent More Parents

NickCB — Wed, 16 May 2012 09:00:00 -0700

Apparently this child would like to be Batman with 100 percent fewer bones.

I Just Want the Damn Pipette!

JoeO — Sun, 06 Oct 2013 09:00:00 -0700

Dogs Are Gross

JoeO — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 09:00:00 -0700

The Dangers of Oxygen

JoeO — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 04:00:00 -0800

I See What They Did There

Wadzilla — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 08:00:00 -0700

Galle Crater on Mars

JoeO — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 03:00:00 -0700

The Moons of Jupiter

JoeO — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 07:00:00 -0700

Science Prevents Zombies

JoeO — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 05:00:00 -0700

One Crazy Set of Teeth

JoeO — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:00:00 -0800

The Helicoprion was a shark-like fish that arose in the oceans of the late Carboniferous 280 million years ago, and eventually went extinct during the early Triassic some 225 million years ago.

Math Is Super Tough Get Him a Calculator

JoeO — Thu, 25 Dec 2014 04:00:00 -0800

Easiest Way to Do Homework

JoeO — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 03:00:00 -0700

Aren't Borders Weird?

JoeO — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 04:00:00 -0800

Last Week in Science

JoeO — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 04:00:00 -0700

How Did Life Start?

JoeO — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:00:00 -0700

The Lion, the Witch, and the Koala?

NickCB — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:00:00 -0700

Man that sounds like the best study abroad EVER.

Wax Statue of Jane Austen Uses Forensic Science to Create Accurate Likeness

JoeO — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 08:00:00 -0700

The Jane Austen Centre claims to have drawn on forensic techniques and eye-witness accounts to create the closest ever likeness of the Pride and Prejudice novelist.

Their waxwork went on display at the centre in Bath on Wednesday morning. It has taken three years to create, with forensic artist Melissa Dring taking as her starting point the sketch done by Austen's sister Cassandra in 1810, the only accepted portrait of the writer other than an 1870 adaptation of that picture. She then used contemporary eyewitness descriptions of the novelist to come up with her own likeness.

Inertia is a Property of Matter

kristyb — Fri, 15 May 2015 08:00:00 -0700

Isn't Density Fun?

NickCB — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 09:00:00 -0800

Art Imitates Life

adamdomer — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:00:00 -0700

Hooray! Now I Have Twenty Copies of My Thesis!

NickCB — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 09:00:00 -0700

Singing With the Gibbons

JoeO — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 05:00:00 -0800

That's Not How Grading Papers Works

JoeO — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 08:00:00 -0800

Someone's a Baaaaad Student

kacerosky — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 04:00:00 -0800

Basic Aglebar For Colelge Lerners

finelytuned — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:00:00 -0800

Behold the Flying, Feeling Robots!

JoeO — Wed, 08 May 2013 07:00:00 -0700

GUMMY BEAR, NOOOOO

NickCB — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 08:00:00 -0800