Natalia Pogonina is a grandmaster chess player. At only 25 years old, she has attained a FIDE rate of over 2500. That puts her up with the top male competitors. She is a three time European champion and is a member of the Russian Olympic Chess Team. Check out her website here.

What the heck do you say about an animal like this? I know that it looks like something from a bad sci-fi flick but this is real. This particular one came up with a submersible. It lives around 8500 ft underwater and at 2.5 ft long is believed to be the largest ever found. Check [...]

The title of this vid kinda says it all.

My “Fun With” posts seem to have become a bit of a series. Hope you like em. Next post: Fun With Thermite

Needs no introduction.

One sweet optical illusion.

There is a movement afoot, to make Hella the new SI prefix (US) for 10^27, coming after Yotta. Austin Sendek, from the UC Davis Physics Dept. said: “The number of atoms in 120 kg of carbon-12 would be simplified from 6,000 yottaatoms to 6 hellaatoms. Similarly, the sun (mass of 2.2 hellatons) would release energy [...]

I simply have no words for this.

Not much more needs be said here. Enjoy. And my favorite from the group:

Here are a few vids of people putting non-food items in microwaves. I’m gonna have to try some of these. First off is Ivory soap in a microwave. Oh, yeah, and make sure and watch the vids all the way through. This is what happens when you put a sonic boom firework in the microwave. [...]