Monthly Archives: January 2014

What Happens When Water Freezes in a Box So Strong It Can’t Expand?

By Karl Smallwood – TodayIFoundOut.com

What Happens When Water Freezes in a Box So Strong It Can't Expand?

Some readers may recall a science class in which an excitable teacher walked to the front of the class to show off a small, cracked steel container, seemingly damaged by an incredibly powerful, but tiny force; only for said teacher to reveal that the damage had been done by nothing more than water. However, what would happen if you put the water in a container it couldn’t break out of and then froze it?

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A genius guy invented the perfect machine to make a single cookie

By Casey Chan on Sploid, shared by Casey Chan to Gizmodo

A genius guy invented the perfect machine to make a single cookie

Here’s the thing about chocolate chip cookies: they’re delicious. Here’s another thing: unless you’re a professional baker maestro who bakes a batch everyday and tweaks their cookie recipe after every time to adjust the flavor, it’s going to be hard to come up with the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe. It’s a numbers game, you just don’t bake enough to figure out exactly what works. Not anymore. Not with this machine. This is perfection.

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Sometimes the Only Explanation For Your Computer Fault Is Witchcraft

By Jamie Condliffe

Sometimes the Only Explanation For Your Computer Fault Is Witchcraft

Despite being so user-friendly on the whole, computers are incredibly complex systems. So complex that sometimes—just sometimes—the only explanation for a fault is that it must be haunted or something. Just blame the ghost in the machine. […

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