Bios

Cats may help save us from nuclear Armageddon.

Screams activate the portion of our brain that houses our fear circuits.

We shed about 40,000 skin cells every hour, but somehow tattoos stay put.

When two books are interlaced they can lift two tons!

What’s the trick to winning five dollars? You have treat the dollar bill like a band aid.

Our brains can interpret an image just 13 milliseconds after we see it, but we still don’t catch everything. For our visual system to correctly process everything we see, our brains would have to be the size of houses!

Even small surprises can set off activity in the brain called the Nucleus Accumbens. That’s one of the brain’s pleasure sensors!

Beer tapping causes a chain reaction. A shockwave travels through the beer and fragments the bubbles.

Space junk, of any size, is no joke. Paint flecks can travel eight times the speed of a bullet through space!

Kilobots are modeled after the hive mindset often seen in nature. These teeny robots can work together to accomplish goals.

Salmon can swim hundreds of miles and throw themselves up over waterfalls, but hydroelectric dams can be a struggle for them. This pneumatic tube shots them to safety!

The Thatcher effect is a phenomenon where it becomes more difficult to detect emotions and features in an upside-down face. Can you guess if this man is happy, sad, or angry?

30 lemons to be exact. When your phone is out of juice, you can charge it with this juice!

Light moves fastest in a vacuum where nothing is impeding its travel. Once light hits a dense medium, it changes speed and direction.

Without a suit, space is not a friendly place. The good news is, you would pass out so quickly, you would’t be awake to witness it.

Not that we suggest you try it… Human hair is composed of various amino acids that wrap around each other like chains on a molecular level.