Scientists have designed a Star Wars-esque laser that can shoot down between 50 and 100 mosquitoes per second! They created it completely out of parts bought on eBay. In areas affected by malaria, these lasers could be used to create fences around clinics, homes, or agricultural fields instead of using pesticides.
Awesome!
Source: NY Times
Showing posts with label fun facts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fun facts. Show all posts
Friday, April 9, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Fun facts!
I've decided this blog will also be a collection of fun facts I learn from teh intarwebs and NPR. For example:
-Giorgio Carbone of Seborga, Italy convinced the inhabitants of his town that the town was an independent principality. They elected him as prince, and he was addressed colloquially as "His Tremendousness".
-The floor collapsed under a Weight Watchers meeting. I'm sure it must have been mortifying for them, but it's also really really funny.
-"Truck Nutz", metal testicles to hang from your pickup truck or other sufficiently manly vehicle in case isn't already compensation enough, are now illegal in Florida. The fact that they actually make a product like this is amusing enough, but even better is the fact that they spent time debating this in the Florida senate. One of the senators admitted to owning a pair and said that it is, and I quote, "an expression of truckliness." Wow.
-I just found my new favourite phrase in Italian: "Ho una fame da lupo", which means, roughly translated, "hungry like the wolf". (And I really, really tempted to link that to this video.) Or maybe it's "succhiacazzi" (cocksucker). Grazie, professore!
-Giorgio Carbone of Seborga, Italy convinced the inhabitants of his town that the town was an independent principality. They elected him as prince, and he was addressed colloquially as "His Tremendousness".
-The floor collapsed under a Weight Watchers meeting. I'm sure it must have been mortifying for them, but it's also really really funny.
-"Truck Nutz", metal testicles to hang from your pickup truck or other sufficiently manly vehicle in case isn't already compensation enough, are now illegal in Florida. The fact that they actually make a product like this is amusing enough, but even better is the fact that they spent time debating this in the Florida senate. One of the senators admitted to owning a pair and said that it is, and I quote, "an expression of truckliness." Wow.
-I just found my new favourite phrase in Italian: "Ho una fame da lupo", which means, roughly translated, "hungry like the wolf". (And I really, really tempted to link that to this video.) Or maybe it's "succhiacazzi" (cocksucker). Grazie, professore!
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Osama Bin Laden obsessed with Whitney Houston!
According to this article, Osama Bin Laden is completely obsessed with Whitney Houston. He wants to have her husband killed and take her as a wife. I can just imaging him wandering around going "IIIIIIIII will always love yooouuuuuu!"
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