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Science Minus Details is a blog dedicated to showing how cool the universe is and how science can help you appreciate that. While we do love the nitty gritty details of scientific investigations, we keep those to ourselves in favor of the BIG ideas, which can often get lost in a sea of data. Simple stories about the complex universe. Science minus details.
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This was originally posted on Sustainable Nano, which is my new project. You should go check it out! Science Minus Details will live on though! Poop posts will come, have faith!!!!
As with all good meals of information, let's start this one off with ice cream!
In an effort to grow out of my "slim fit" clothes, I've begun an ice-cream-after-every-dinner diet.
Even the cat likes my diet!
An added bonus is that I go through jugs of ice cream so quickly that I […]
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Check out these divers, trying super-hard to dive the best dive that has ever been dived:
These faces don't lie. Image via.
Incredible feats of strength, dedication, and squished faces are on prominent display at the London 2012 Olympics. I won't pretend to understand what drives Olympic athletes to be so zany, but I do know that if they squish their faces hard enough they will be rewarded with one of these beautiful Olympic medals.
2012 Olympic Medals
There they […]
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Do you ever think about how cool it is that someone on the opposite side of the earth from you is standing "upside down"--your feet facing their feet?
Or even when you travel from one US coast to another, you are standing at a ~45 degree tilt relative to how you were standing before.
I had thoughts like this swirling in my head during one moonless night on the pacific coast, as the campfire died down and our very own milky way galaxy came into view.
Us, our planet, and our solar […]
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On a recent bike trip to the shore of Lake Waubesa near Madison, WI I saw this awesome tree covered in this crazy greenish stuff.
Summer has returned to the northern hemisphere and I'm SO PSYCHED.
That greenish stuff on the trunk of the tree are lichens. Lichens are the coolest fungi! Lichens are also the coolest plants and the coolest bacteria! Wait... how is that possible????
Lichens are composite organisms! Lichens are composed of a fungus along with some sort of photosynthetic […]
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Deep in the heart of south-central Wisconsin, there lives a scientist who would prefer to remain nameless and (nearly) faceless. We will call him Yoe.
Yoe the Scientist
Yoe is a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is interested in transforming the nature of matter. Yoe is also interested in things that are very small. He combines these interests by researching nanowires made of the element silicon. Before we dive any deeper, let's talk about what the [...]
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