STEM Camp: Thanos and the Robot Hand
Summer STEM camps can be the best of times and the worst of times. Trying to keep students engaged when out of the routine and mindset of school is not for the faint of heart but it can be done. The Science Of recently took part in a camp activity at the Sci-Tech...
Black Mirror’s “Crocodile”: Can Your Pet Testify Against You?
So let’s say that - sometime in the near future, a killer breaks into a house where a baby and its father are settling down for the night. After killing the father, the murderer hears the infant from the other room. Walking by the nursery, they see the baby, which, in...
A Gruesome Conservation of Momentum on Netflix’s Love, Death & Robots
Coming up, in no particular order: a gruesome story about space, a spoiler for the “Helping Hand” episode of Netflix’s series, Love, Death & Robots, and an explanation of how the conservation of momentum works. If you feel that any of those three topics will upset...
Game of Thrones Winter, Geoengineering Here?
It’s been a little while since the Game of Thrones ended, feelings might have calmed...a little, and good memories may have started to creep in and cover up the perhaps no-so-good memories, so let’s go back to Westeros. One of Game of Thrones’ central plot points was...
Thanos’ Snap Would Bring Hell on Earth – and Then?
When you watch Avengers: Infinity War, you're clearly left with the strong feeling that Thanos did what he did in order to save the universe - to diminish the stress of an unlimited number of lifeforms chasing after a limited number of resources. To bring peace....