Archive for September, 2007
I realise that there’s been a whole plethora of science videos this last week, and some of you may be thinking “Has Frank simply got very lazy? Can’t he be bothered to root out bad science anymore?”. Still more are probably thinking I don’t have time to post entertaining snippets of weird science because I’m too busy hanging out in London’s cocktail bars, snorting coke off the breasts of teenage models. Actually, the truth is even better: I’m putting the finishing touches to a sciencepunk piece of colossal magnitude - to be released in a week or two. It’s gonna be ace. Until then, I’ll do my best to maintain this site as best I can with the few waking minutes I still have free.
September 8th, 2007
As many of you will remember, cosmetics company Clarins recently launched Expertise 3P, a spray that could form an invisible “Magnetic Defence Complex” on your skin, protecting you from the skin-ageing effects of “Artificial EMF” (a.k.a. mobile phone waves etc). Things were going swimmingly until several people complained to the Advertising Standards Authority that Clarins was talking utter rubbish. The ASA agreed and ordered Clarins to remove the offending claims from their promotional material.
Happily for us, nothing every dies on the internet, and I have dug up this wonderfully silly promotional video featuring an interview with Dr Lionel di Benetti, head of R&D at Clarins. If only I’d seen this before posting my top 10 bad scientists on film.
September 8th, 2007
Something tells me Bjork is going to want one of these.
September 7th, 2007
You have to wonder why they’re standing here when they should be running and screaming.
September 5th, 2007
What’s better than a six-legged walking tank thing? Answer: absolutely nothing. My dreams of stomping around animé-style in a giant walking robot are one step closer to reality. Thank you, John Deere company!
September 4th, 2007
If you like the LOLcats, you’ll love LOLscience. Otherwise you’ll just be a bit mystified.
Credit: Ithika at Broken Hut.
September 2nd, 2007
Vampires worldwide have rejoiced at the arrival of the first significant advance in blood-letting since the hypodermic syringe. This neat gadget works using a remarkably simple system - an infra-red light is shone onto the skin, and the image filmed using a IR camera. The vein viewer then projects the image back onto the skin using visible light.
September 2nd, 2007
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