Stories by Kyle Hill

I have dug through the Internet this week and uncovered all this geeky goodness. You can find the thousands of links from previous weeks here.

Let’s get real. It doesn’t matter if you think Monsanto is evil. Genetically modified  food is safe—no matter what logical fallacies will lead liberals like Bill Maher to believe.

In what has to be a win for science communication, AMC—the cable network behind the wildly successful zombie comic adaptation The Walking Dead—has decided to partner with an online instruction company and the University of California-Irvine to create a zombie-themed interdisciplinary course.

German artist Dirk Löchel has created what sci-fi lovers previously could only dream of as they tirelessly scoured wikis and forums—the single greatest chart of famous science fiction spacecrafts and their sizes.

I have dug through the Internet this week and uncovered all this geeky goodness. You can find the thousands of links from previous weeks here.

What we don’t know is shaped by what we do. Whatever dark matter is, we will look for it assuming an accelerating, expanding universe. However cancer can be truly defeated, we will have to outsmart evolution to do so.

I have dug through the Internet this week and uncovered all this geeky goodness. You can find the thousands of links from previous weeks here.

“Arrakis–Dune–Desert planet.” Science fiction’s epic opus—Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel DUNE—tells a story of politics, betrayal, and sandworms on a vast desert planet called Arrakis.

I have dug through the Internet this week and uncovered all this geeky goodness. You can find the thousands of links from previous weeks here.

If you wish to make a human being from scratch… Start with enough oxygen to fill a freight container. Then add an amount of hydrogen that fills 4,700 party balloons.

I have dug through the Internet this week and uncovered all this geeky goodness. You can find the thousands of links from previous weeks here.

In Chapter 4* we discussed the proper maintenance and operation of energy weapons such as plasma rifles and Tesla cannons. In this chapter, you will learn how to direct those beams and blasts like a true mad scientist!

A candle is more illuminating after it has been blown out. In 2009, aspiring science photographer Grover Schrayer took a series of photos documenting candle smoke–something that most people have seen before, but never looked close enough at.

A candle is more illuminating after it has been blown out. In 2009, aspiring science photographer Grover Schrayer took a series of photos documenting candle smoke–something that most people have seen before, but never looked close enough at.

I have dug through the Internet this week and uncovered all this geeky goodness. You can find the thousands of links from previous weeks here.

It’s summer time; do you know what that means? Time to accentuate the abs and cut the top off the muffin. If you decide to shape up, you won’t be alone.

I have dug through the Internet this week and uncovered all this geeky goodness. You can find the thousands of links from previous weeks here.

I have dug through the Internet this week and uncovered all this geeky goodness. You can find the thousands of links from previous weeks here.

I have dug through the Internet this week and uncovered all this geeky goodness. You can find the thousands of links from previous weeks here.

I have dug through the Internet this week and uncovered all this geeky goodness. You can find the thousands of links from previous weeks here.

Elysium is set over a century in the future, but you can test its physics today. All you need is a carnival ticket and a bucket of water. The latest sci-fi thriller from District 9 director Neill Blomkamp, Elysium tells the story of the haves and the have-nots in the 22nd century (quite literally).

Elysium is set over a century in the future, but you can test its physics today. All you need is a carnival ticket and a bucket of water. The latest sci-fi thriller from District 9 director Neill Blomkamp, Elysium tells the story of the haves and the have-nots in the 22nd century (quite literally).

I have dug through the Internet this week and uncovered all this geeky goodness. You can find the thousands of links from previous weeks here.

I have dug through the Internet this week and uncovered all this geeky goodness. You can find the thousands of links from previous weeks here.