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This page shows a woman getting her jaw broken by a flying Asian carp on the Illinois river: Instant Karma: Woman bow hunting carp gets jaw broken by fish Looking at that article by itself, you might wonder how it is possible for a fish to break a woman’s jaw. This video will make it [...]
There’s a big debate over whether exporting democracy is a sound idea. On the one hand, you’ve got all the good things that come with it, like egalitarianism, the rule of law and kids holding hands and skipping everywhere. On the other hand, you’ve got free markets, corporate exploitation and homogenization.
It’s been requested that we list our favorite history movies, and you know how Sarah and I love playing fairy godmother. Wish granted.
And since we like to be inclusive, here are some HowStuffWorks staff favorites as well.
Would you like to look out your window and see the gorgeous curve of our lovely Planet Earth? Then start saving. For $200,000, you can reserve such a view on Virgin Galactic’s newest spaceship, SpaceshipTwo, according to FoxNews.com.
I’m blogging about this today because yesterday SpaceshipTwo made its maiden flight. It didn’t actually go into space. It was carried up very high in the sky by its mother ship WhiteKnightTwo and then carried back down. But one day soon, WhiteNightTwo will carry SpaceshipTwo up to about 50,000 feet and let lil’ one go.
This past weekend I had my first chance to observe the Science Olympiad as a parent. That is, this is David’s first year in middle school and his school sent a team to the regional competition. If you’ve never been to a Science Olympiad, it is a fascinating thing. In the case of the regional [...]
When I dance, it’s not usually with bananas around my waist, but I am not Josephine Baker. She walked her cheetah down the Seine, she enchanted Picasso and Hemingway — and she went on to become a spy for the French Resistance and an adoptive mother to 12.
The Romanov family ruled the Russian Empire from 1613 to 1917, no short reign. Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra were in charge when it ended — and they and their family disappeared. What happened to them? And did Anastasia escape?
Yes, if the prospect of corpse-eating warbots wasn’t enough, Swiss engineers are keeping the dream of a horrifying and ghoulish robotic future alive with Virtobot, which will “not only study dead bodies virtually, but create a digital copy of the cadaver so that it might be studied years down the line.” What’s not to love?
I was catching up my Boing Boing reading when I came across this post, which links to instructions for how to sculpt the head of Apple CEO Steve Jobs out of mozzarella cheese. Why would someone do this? For an iPad launch party, of course! Or, for the party that I am about to suggest: the creepiest dinner party ever.
You Asked: How do ice breaking ships work? — Chris, Reading, Penn. Marshall Brain Answers: An ice breaking ship has three things that help it do its job. First, it has a high-strength hull that is able to crash through ice that can grow up to 10 feet (3 meters) thick and then move it [...]
This is just a guess on my part, but I’d be willing to bet that when you hear mention of Toyota’s manufacturing operations most of you probably think of the Toyota production system (aka lean manufacturing). And if you know anything about lean manufacturing, then there’s an even better chance that you’ve heard about the Kaizen philosophy. “Kaizen” means “improvement” in the Japanese language, and the Kaizen philosophy is all about continuous improvement.
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