Welcome back to another edition of News for Nerds! This week we'll look at why Adele's music makes us cry, how to tell if someone's lying to you online, and what your heartbeat has to do with your Twitter password. But first: we're gonna need a bigger boat.
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Piranhas are fierce, destructive creatures. Native to South America, they use teeth as sharp as kitchen knives to eat just about everything they come into contact with.
Everything, that is, except the mysterious fish called the arapaima. The arapaima is a pretty unusual animal to begin with -- a relic of evolutio …
With this week's release of the final book in the Galahad series, The Denver Post's Claire Martin sat down with Dom to disucss the end of a saga, traveling the world, his work with middle school students... and a variety of so-called 'chick questions'.
You can read the full article right here.
Thanks to Claire and the Post for the Galahad love. And special thanks to our friends at The Bookies for the photo op, as well.
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In a recent interview I was asked how I felt about closing the book on a series that has spanned almost eight years and six volumes. “Are you sad?” the writer asked, referring to the final installment of the Galahad series.
It’s an interesting question, and it’s one that I want to address this weekend when we host the official book launch party for The Galahad Legacy at The Tattered Cover in Highlands Ranch, CO.
We seem to have an issue in our society with the concept of “goodbye.” It’s pervasive, really, and it spans so many different themes. We …
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You know about extreme sports. They've become part of the mainstream these days, with entire TV shows dedicated to showcasing the skills (and courage) of base jumpers and X gamers. But Felix Baumgartner would like you all to know that when it comes to extreme sports, he's not messing around anymore.
Baumgartner, an Austrian adrenaline junkie, is planning to set the record this summer for highest skydive when he takes a high-altitude helium balloon 120,000 feet in the air, and then, like any sane person would do, jumps off and plummets back to Earth.
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Our friend Steve Spangler is an absolute rock star in the worlds of science and education. His events draw teachers from all over the world, and his appearances on Denver's 9News (weekly) and the Ellen DeGeneres Show (a dozen and counting) are the kind of viral videos that you actually feel good about watching while you're supposed to be doing something else.
Best of all, Steve is the master of sharing a cool experience and then teaching the science behind it.
Today we stumbled across some video from one of his recent visits to 9News. In it, he shows meteorologist Becky Ditchfield how to pus …
