Jul
15
2009
As six astronauts end a simulated 105 day space trip to Mars, HAINSWORTH.COM looks to the past to get a glimpse into our future travel plans. After 105 days in a human-sized hamster Habitrail, four Russians, a Frenchman and a German (walk into a bar) announced it was no big deal to be cooped up [...]
Jun
29
2009
The late King of Pop to join his monkey Bubbles in the plastic afterworld, claims Daily Mail. Michael Jackson’s apparent attempts at cheating death have failed: he missed the deadline to be cryogenically frozen. The British newspaper The Daily Mail is reporting German doctor Gunther Von Hagens, the man behind the process known as “plastination” [...]
Apr
11
2009
Keep this handy poster in your time machine to help invent flight, penicillin, generate electricity, and invent the radio. Source: TopatoCo
Apr
10
2009
Declassification of certain U.S. military projects sheds light on the Groom Lake facility popularized by 40 years of tin foil hat-wearing conspiracy theorists. I want to believe. The Los Angeles Times has interviewed five men who worked on the base in the 1960s. They weren’t reverse-engineering components from the Roswell crash of 1947, but they [...]
Apr
01
2009
A California State University in Fullerton psychologist has found a genetic link to the age at which you lose your virginity.
Mar
20
2009
Our eyes are designed to spot movement. Those of us with more twitchy tendencies are more likely to find Waldo, car keys. Our eyes never remain perfectly still, even when staring at one spot. Researchers in Arizona picked up a Where’s Waldo? book and recorded the eye movements of subjects searching for the lanky bespectacled [...]
Mar
15
2009
Today we learn that a single question accurately identifies alcoholics, your grandfather better lay off the Jack, and — SHOCKER! — girls drink too much when trying to impress boys. By 1.5 drinks, to be precise. Researchers at Boston Medical Center re-asked 286 patients who had undergone a lengthy previous test this question, suggested by [...]
Mar
05
2009
Readers of Modern Mechanix magazine were warned in April of 1933 that the lights could go out at any minute. Source: Explosion of Sun Overdue, blog.modernmechanix.com
Mar
05
2009
New Scientist reports the Obama Administration has pumped more cash into science and technology than at any other time in history — including the Apollo space program and the Manhattan nuclear bomb project. US$50B alone is going into renewable power and energy efficiency. Obama was likely thrown into the dark during the Great Blackout of [...]
Feb
21
2009
You discover all sorts of unusual things combing the logs and statistics at HAINSWORTH.COM. It was no surprise that Porn airs during Super Bowl Game was the most popular article here. What surprises me more is that Darwin Poster: Very Gradual Change We Can Believe In surpassed it. When a Tuscon, Arizona Comcast feed of [...]
