Archives March 2016

World premiere today for the new Batman V Superman movie, one of the most anticipated movies of the year with the controversial casting of Ben Affleck as Batman.
So, for our “Superhero Science” series 2nd post we are analizing a scene from the first Superman movie. Not the 2013 Man of Steel, but the 1978 ...

In October, I made a post for an awesome Thor Hammer, Allen Pan made basically to prank people! That hammer was magnetic, so is the core of Magneto’s powers (who was in big trouble in that post’s comic strip).
Trying to write something cool about Magneto, I came up with the idea of ...

March 13. The day known to the nerd community as “Pi Day”! The day of “π”.
Why that day? Because if you write that date in the American way (3/14) you get the first three digits of Pi! Pi day is almost as awesome as the Star Wars Day. The fact that Star Wars ...

In our last blog post, we mentioned the scientific mind of a military man, Jean-Charled de Borda, who invented a very smart election method, and his name is on the Borda-Carnot equation.

Today we are digging in the other half of the equation: Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot.
Carnot was also a military guy, but the ...

It is impressive how things were working back in the day! If someone was really smart and was wealthy enough, he would become whatever he wanted. All at once!
When I searched for Borda-Carnot equation, which is a really interesting one, I found out that it was named after Jean-Charles, chevalier de Borda and azare ...

Today, the Western world is anticipating one thing. The release of the new Season of the Netflix Original Series, House of Cards.
The politics centered series have a major impact in viewers worldwide. Even the President of the United States himself admitted that he is a fan of House of Cards.

In case the one ...

In our last post, pendulums were the main subject. As we mentioned apart from the obvious scientific interest this “device” served for a long time as a time keeping method. More precisely from 1965 until the 1930s.

The pendulum clocks were using a swinging weight as a “timekeeping element”.
It worked because pendulums are harmonic ...