There’s a Korean urban legend that states if you sleep in a sealed (windows, doors closed) room with an electric fan or air conditioner operating, you will die of suffocation. The belief states that the fan creates a vortex locally in the room resulting in a decreased air pressure and partial vacuum. Anyone unlucky enough […]

If everyone on Earth stood on one continent and everyone jumped at the same time, would the resulting impact be enough to knock the Earth out of Orbit?
According to my calculations, no.
The resulting impact would accelerate the Earth about 0.0000000000017 meters per second per second. To put this in perspective there are about 31,500,000,000,000 seconds […]

I’m speaking, of course, of the Monkey Man of New Delhi.
Ugh, the Wikipedia article is kind of a mess so I’ve omitted the link to it. I included the CNN article instead. The reign of terror of the monkey man was a frightening time for me, personally.
This is somewhat of a selfish post. I’m pretty […]