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So You Want To Be A Superhero

December 17, 2020 by Bitter Staff 2 Comments

And soon, you’ll be able to fulfill that superhero dream. Because, science. That’s right, scientists are currently attempting to make all our dreams come true with this stretchable conducting cable. The fiber itself is made from sheets of carbon nanotubes wrapping around a rubber core. Oh, that sounds boring? Well, do flexibile exoskeletons and morphing aircraft sound…

Filed Under: Featured, SciTech Tagged With: Like A Fish, Martin Jetpack, science, stretchable conducting cable, superhero, technology

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5 Prescription Drugs That Make You Go “What the Actual F*!@#”

December 15, 2020 by BitterEmpire Leave a Comment

1. Latisse Luscious, beautiful lashes. A dream come true for eyelash-impaired people who that want that kind of thing. But, when you read the fine print, you have to wonder are the risks of Latisse worth it? Seriously. If you have itching, burning, swollen eyes those compliments on your fantabulous new eyelashes might fall a…

Filed Under: SciTech Tagged With: alli, latisse, lyrica, prescription drugs

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America, It’s Time To Freak Out About Killer Shrimp

December 14, 2020 by Gina Hagler Leave a Comment

Forget the killer tomatoes. Don’t stress about the zombie apocalypse. Turns out you should be worried about shrimp. Yes, the Dikerogammarus villosus, aka killer shrimp, to be exact. This species makes its home in the area around the Black and Caspian Seas. For the geographically challenged, that includes such places as Romania, Turkey, Russia, Iran,…

Filed Under: SciTech Tagged With: Dikerogammarus villosus, killer shrimp

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Welcome To Your Very Own Hobbit Hole

September 26, 2020 by Gina Hagler 1 Comment

I’m a bit ashamed to admit it, but I came to The Hobbit late in life. Like three years ago. I’d been hearing about it for years from Tolkien enthusiasts – my teen son prime among them – but it wasn’t enough to make me crack open that volume and care about toe hair until…

Filed Under: SciTech Tagged With: hobbit holes, hobbits, tolkien

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Barbie Can’t Be a Computer Engineer. Because She is a Girl.

July 1, 2019 by Bitter Staff 3 Comments

When I was a teenager, I broke up with Barbie. Not in a I stopped playing with Barbies kind of way, more in a burning this scourge from the face of the Earth kind of way. I don’t know what the final impetus was – that I realized Barbie’s itty-bitty ankles would snap like tiny…

Filed Under: SciTech Tagged With: barbie, computing, gender, it, mattel, stem, tech

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How to Sabotage Your Coworkers: A Primer for Chemistry Grad Students

June 16, 2019 by Scott Long Leave a Comment

Welcome to grad school in chemistry! Most people envision it as an intellectually stimulating environment, in which everyone helps each other out to achieve common goals. Unfortunately, many of you chemistry grad students are lazy bastards. You don’t give a damn about your research, are only in grad school to impress your friends and family,…

Filed Under: SciTech Tagged With: chemistry, grad school, sabotage

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4 CERN Songs You Should Listen To

April 9, 2019 by BitterEmpire Leave a Comment

You may have heard Alpine Kat’s incredibly awesome rap about the Large Hadron Collider: But did you know that there is also a response rap? Yep, the guys at Fermilab just couldn’t let the LHC get all the attention. Or, at least their friends over at Nerdcore couldn’t. And Alpine Kat isn’t the only one…

Filed Under: SciTech Tagged With: ATLAS, CERN, cernettes, Higgs Boson, LHC, music, songs

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Interpretive Dance and PhD Theses: Opposites Attract

March 12, 2019 by Bitter Staff Leave a Comment

Each year the American Association for the Advancement of Science runs the most absurdly awesome competition ever created: Dance Your PhD. Yep, you read that right. Doctoral candidates in the sciences work tirelessly for years on cutting edge projects that will add something original to their field and then they think…huh, I wonder what this…

Filed Under: SciTech Tagged With: dance your phd, doctoral candidates, interpretive dance, science

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Sexing A Dinosaur

February 19, 2019 by Bitter Staff Leave a Comment

ZOMG. Get your mind out of the gutter. We would never write about dinosaur sexxxytime. We are not that kind of blog. Well, except that one time. At band camp. No. What we are talking about is exciting news in the field of paleontology: finally, scientists believe they can accurately differentiate between male and female…

Filed Under: Featured, SciTech Tagged With: dinosaur, female, male, sex

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Perfect Plans For Pi Day

February 11, 2019 by Bitter Staff 1 Comment

Fine, whatever, yes, this is pretty arbitrary, or dare we say…irrational. Heh. But still, it’s kinda cool when numbers and dates collide, right? Like in the eighties when it was 8am on the 8th of August, ’88? Anywho, we were thinking about how the arbitrary and Hallmark-y nature of Valentine’s Day makes it totally suck…

Filed Under: SciTech Tagged With: 3.14, irrational numbers, pi, pi day

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