The other day, I was talking to a friend about old tech we still use, and I realized I’d be hard pressed to find anything I’m still using that’s older than my studio headphones. I bought a pair of Sennheiser HD580s about ten years ago. They still sound great, but they’ve outlasted most of the other electronics I’ve purchased since then simply because the designers knew how they’d fail.Most other headphones and earbuds I’ve had failed in exactly the same way—a cable gets damaged […]

Yesterday’s devastating tornado in Moore, Oklahoma is a heartbreaking tragedy, a painful reminder of nature’s destructive power. WHile your heart deals with many feelings, your head may be swimming with questions on just why these terrible twisters happen. Here’s some answers: Learn how tornadoes are formed in the above video from Scientific American. As warm air rushes in from the Gulf of Mexico, it collides with high-altitude cold air forced down from the north. That creates a rotating […]

Hearts and Prayers to Moore, Oklahoma. I was sound asleep and was completely unaware of the weather and tragedy happening back home. A very bad tornado hit Oklahoma – just south of Oklahoma City. I began getting messages on Twitter, Facebook, and via email asking if I was still in Africa or not. I am. [...]

Each week we’ll round up links to science stories or studies that blow our mind, tickle our funny bone, or generally strike our fancy.

Adult males diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in childhood face nearly twice the odds of becoming obese according to a new study published online at Pediatrics.  Witness the latest chapter of ADHD, the Diagnosis Eating Away at America:The prospective study included 207 white men diagnosed with ADHD at an average age of 8 and a comparison group of 178 men not diagnosed with childhood ADHD, who were matched for race, age, residence and social […]