The Mercator projection drastically distorts the size of almost every area of land except a small ring around the North and South Poles.

Poorly Drawn Lines – Selling

Cesium-133, let it be. Cesium-134, let it be even more.

Poorly Drawn Lines – Listen

A partial eclipse is like a cool sunset. A total eclipse is like someone broke the sky.

The rare compound solar-lunar-nephelogical eclipse

The Credible Machine

If you're really savvy, you can hide an entire set of illicit transactions by timing them to draw what looks like a graph inset.

First comes blood / Then we perish / Then comes Death in his Eternity Carriage.

Fun fact: The standard North American NAD83 coordinate system is misaligned from the actual Earth, off-center by about 7 feet. Someone knows where I am, and I'm in the wrong place.

Okay, this eclipse will only be visible from the Arctic in February 2063, when the sun is below the horizon, BUT if we get lucky and a gigantic chasm opens in the Earth in just the right spot...

Bonus question: Where is London located? (a) The British Isles (b) Great Britain and Northern Ireland (c) The UK (d) Europe (or 'the EU') (e) Greater London

Concealed mostly beneath the surface, sharks are the icebergs of the sea.

The creepy fingers that grow from a vibrating cornstarch-water mix can be modeled as a chain of inverted vertical pendulums (DOI:10.1039/c4sm00265b) and are believed to be the fingers of Maxwell's Demon trying to push through into our universe.

It's not far from the sign marking the exact latitude and longitude of the Earth's core.

Poor Weeoming.

The company tried to document how often employees were celebrating Software Testing Day, but their recordkeeping system kept mysteriously crashing.

While it seemed like a fun prank at the time, I realize my prank fire extinguishers full of leaded gasoline were a mistake.

From Google Trends, it looks like the lag between people Googling cocktail recipes and 'hangover cure' is 14 hours.

Certain hybrid events can only happen in certain locations where all the conditions are present; chasers flock to the area in and around Kansas known as tumbleweed-colliding-with-possum alley.