science – Michael Janairo

Fun story, bad science journalism

Which side are you on? One space or two?

A video about scale and perspective

Something I saw while looking up something else, or how all your science fair solar systems are bad science:

For my physics-loving friends: gravity in a vacuum

This is something I have always wanted to see. I understood the idea of it in physics class in high school, but I never saw this in action until now: that a bowling ball and a feather would fall at the same rate in a vacuum. Enjoy!

How to write a bestseller with ‘stylometry’

Scientists say they’ve uncovered the secret to writing a bestselling novel. By using a process called “statistical stylometry,” which basically means data mining an overload of printed matter — in this case 40,000 books and film scripts — to find patterns of wood usage. The Stony Brook University researchers say that books that used moreContinue reading “How to write a bestseller with ‘stylometry’”