Well, since noone objected to last weeks link spamming, i’ll give it a whirl again (plus it’s easier for my hung-over brain to write then a full-blown article). Like last week, it’s basically just websites/blogposts i came across throughout the week that weren’t really news, but still interesting. If you have suggestions for links, send them to kari@reducedmass.com and i’ll have a look, maybe i’ll include it next week. Enough chatter though, on to the links.

The radiation pseudo medical-science of the early 1900’s: This is by far my favorite link this week. It is an article discussing a pseudo medical-science from the early 1900’s that involved getting a good dose of radiation every day to stay healthy. Much like other crap such as homeopathy, there were never any real research done on this, it was just assumed to be natural and good. Very interesting and almost comical read.

Visual representation of some crazy equations: This may be too nerdy for many, but i thought it was interesting still. It’s basically some guy that has apparently plotted a variety of functions with fancy colors and all. He’s also got a pretty fancy of a simulation of a galaxy. I honestly don’t know many of the equations he’s playing with, but if nothing else, it’s pretty psychadelic.

Clearing up electricity misconceptions from school-books: Now i’ll admit i didn’t read the entire website, but i think it’s a good subject and fairly easy to navigate to find something that you may have been taught wrong. The basic premise is that most books taught at the elementary school level are teaching things that are wrong, and this website aims to clear up some of the misconceptions that may have been born from this. If nothing else i’d suggest scrolling through the front-page reading the table of contents, you can see pretty quickly what the misconception being discussed in each chapter is, and decide if it is something you need/want to read or not. Some of the stuff is pretty pedantic really, but still interesting.