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Dihydrogen monoxide
Posted by Owen Richardson on January 10, 2012
http://owenrichardson.com/2012/01/10/dihydrogen-monoxide/
Floating in space.
So here’s the scenario – you’re in the space shuttle, you pass wind because you unwisely consumed a lot of Newcastle Brown Ale at the pre-launch party and your fellow astronauts flushed you out the airlock without a space suit – how long would you survive? Now i knew a couple of things [...]
Posted by Owen Richardson on January 9, 2012
http://owenrichardson.com/2012/01/09/floating-in-space/
Where do piggy banks come from?
Cookware and pottery used to be made out of an orange clay named pygg, and coins would be stored in a jar made of this. Apparently an english potter didn’t know this and made someone a piggy bank rather than a pygg bank. It was kind of fun, and caught on! …i don’t know how [...]
Posted by Owen Richardson on December 17, 2011
http://owenrichardson.com/2011/12/17/where-do-piggy-banks-come-from/
Tron legacy
Found a really fascinating albeit slightly geeky blog entry on the creation of the special effects in Tron Legacy, from one of the guys that worked on it. I loved the film, as well as the original. I was delighted to see the original got a bit part in the newer movie and thought it [...]
Posted by Owen Richardson on December 16, 2011
http://owenrichardson.com/2011/12/16/tron-legacy-2/
Cheers
Interesting fact – The origin of when you bang your glasses together to say cheers or good health… Back in dark times when people used to poison each other to get ahead in life, and generally didn’t trust each other, Banging glasses together would allow a small amount of drink to enter each others glasses. [...]
Posted by Owen Richardson on November 7, 2010
http://owenrichardson.com/2010/11/07/1504801723/
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