Top 14 Real Life Mad Scientists [09 Sep 2008|12:47pm] boju laboratory essentials, originally uploaded by Boju. WARNING: This article contains images and material that may be upsetting to some readers. While Dr. Victor Frankenstein is the epitome of the movie Mad Scientist, his experiments in reanimating the dead are positively tame compared to some of the real life beaker jockeys who earn the title. For starters, Dr. Frankenstein's victims were already dead, and were criminals to boot. The most common victims of mad science are innocent animals. With that said, let's get mad! 13. Dr. Thomas Park. Dr. Thomas park studies unusual sensory perception amongst mammals, which means his research is dedicated to the creepiest of creatures - Bats and Naked Mole Rats. While we all know bats are the air born form of vampires, many people have not been exposed to the shivering pink mass of flesh and teeth that live like a termite and look like an abortion. MAD SCIENCE EXPERIMENT: Mole rats cannot be burned with acid. ""Their insensitivity to acid was very surprising," Park told LiveScience. "Every animal tested — from fish, frogs, reptiles, birds and all other mammals — every animal is sensitive to acid." Was Park just throwing acid on a random assortment of creatures to test his theory that they hate it? And what did he do once he discovered mole rats couldn't be burned? He genetically engineered a cold sore that would make them burnable again. 12. Dr. Warren Thomas Warren Thomas is a scientist who did a lot of acid in 1962. So much so that he thought it would be a good idea to dose an Elephant with LSD. The elephant, named Tusko, died in almost immediately. He claimed in his defense he didn't expect that result, saying he had done plenty of acid himself and that the drug produce no ill effects. What he did expect was the elephant to fly into a psychotic rage, much better right? 11. Dr. Robert Cornish Robert Cornish is a scientist who, in Berkley, CA, 1930, managed to resurrect 2 dead dogs by placing them on a seesaw to circulate the blood and injecting them with a mixture of adrenalin and anticoagulants. Not surprising he was able to find a human volunteer for his experiments with a man condemned to be executed, and the state denied him permission for fear he could do it. Top 10 Mad Scientists after the cut Did I leave anyone off? Let me know! post comment

Alkali Metals [17 Feb 2008|07:30pm] bigblackmimesis YouTube of an extraordinary UK show promoting mad science, Brainiac. 2 comments|post comment

New science forum [07 Apr 2007|04:57am] ryururu http://science.forum24.ru/ post comment

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Boston Group [01 Oct 2006|12:27pm] hannas_kiwi All, If you're interested, some of us are getting together in Boston to tinker around. We're coordinating at the Wonderment blog. Cross posted to mad_science, punkrawkscience. post comment

[16 Aug 2006|12:07pm] silentlanguages This item is for sale at My Etsy Shop post comment

[16 Feb 2006|09:32pm] silentlanguages My name is lauren simone. As an artist, I often demonstrate my interest and fascination with science in my art. Of particular interest to me is dna, the act of mitosis, anatomy, and environmental concerns. If you're intersted in sciencey-geek art, see the image below. Click here for more info post comment

Anatomy-Related Question [11 Jan 2006|11:42pm] lilhamster [ mood | curious ] Would you mind putting my and the folks down at cillian_murphy's minds at rest? In the movie Red Eye.... Actually, this is a movie spoiler: ( Read more... ) 3 comments|post comment

*waves* [23 Sep 2005|07:46pm] howrealisreal Hello, I'm new here, I'm a quantum mechanics/why-the-f**k-are-we-here enthusiast, Please feel free to check out the scientific sh*t I post on my journal and leave some feedback on what you think of the content and my style, there are only three articles so far. 2 comments|post comment

[30 Aug 2005|02:35pm] jaclynjones Like cyberpunk? Meet jaclynjones, a neuroscience espionage mercenary with a gun fetish and a data implant. New stories posted every Monday! Feedback welcome. x-posted post comment

Whee! [19 Jul 2005|03:31pm] xreddestinyx [ mood | nerdy ] [ music | Ride on Shooting Star-The Pillows ] Saluton! ...Why am I speaking Esperanto? O_o Anyway... I'm Katie! Or Atagamay. Whatever you choose! First off, this community has Beakman's World and Bill Nye in it's interests. Any community with that boon is great in my book! ^_^ Second off, I've been into science since I was... Well, however old I was when I could read and think real thoughts and stuff. Probably around three or so. I guess that makes me a fourteenth-year nerd veteran. Dang. No wonder I'm so crotchety... O_o My favorite sciences are astronomy, cryptozoology, botany, physics (I'm bad at math, though.), technology/mechanical typer stuff, and chemistry. Especially small-time kitchen chemistry. With baking soda, vinegar, instant coffee, food coloring, cornstarch, and whatever else I could get my grubby little hands on. That was my childhood pastime... but yeah, I'm not that biased, though. I like all science. It's fun! X3 Aside from science, I have many other steriotypical nerd interests. Anime, video games, sci-fi, reading, language... All that good stuff! ^_^ So yeah. Hihi to you all, and enjoy your investigating! -Atagamay post comment

[04 Jul 2005|03:03pm] jaclynjones I’ve started writing a new series of short stories, and will be posting them weekly, Mondays, at jaclynjones. They’ve got neuroscience industrial espionage, cyberpunk, horror, sex, crime, fashion, action-adventure, transhumanism, fine art and lots of psychopharmacology all rolled into fast fusion fiction. Neuropunk. I think they’re turning out well but I’d love to hear your general comments, as well as any technical advice, futuristic and/or extreme ideas you’d care to share. Your input would be much appreciated. The neuroscience scenarios are fictional (neurometempsychosis, I’d like to see) but mostly with enough basis in reality to make them feasible in not-so-distant future scenarios, and it’s great fun making up drug names. The first story is posted now. Check it out. Thanks! post comment

strangest. event. ever. [01 Jun 2005|06:05pm] dsuursoo http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/01/san_francisco_trouser_snake_event/ the city of san francisco has hosted a 'masturbatathon' and people wonder why middle america is loading it's rifles and lighting it's torches. 3 comments|post comment

new interesting site [11 May 2005|09:40pm] dsuursoo american antigravity, a non-profit organization based in seattle that posts interesting science stuff, most of it relating to odd science, antigravity, lifters, the coanda effect, weapons research. an interesting site, truthfully, and quite worth a look or two. it was this site that got me to reading Nick Cook's 'The Hunt for Zero Point', which started out about antigravity research, then turned into a investigative report on the 'black world' of secret ops in the united states, and then wrapped up as a synopsis of the state of alternative energy and propulsion research in the world. deeply fascinating. and, in case you're wondering, Mr. Cook is a legitimate journalist, he is currently an editor for Jane's Defense Weekly. so it's not some collection of weekly world news stories. in other news, the olde brain is still ticking over, new project in my head, i'm going to be going into building choppers and mini-bikes with my sister-in-law's boyfriend andrew. he'll design them, i'll make them work. i finally got the plan for a CVT for the mini-bikes worked out, and we just have to put it to work. watch for an update to the look of the journal, and new things to be up in the group bio, i really think it could say more about us. post comment

[10 May 2005|07:43pm] thebiomechanoid The potato experiment: Firstly, apologies for this not being hugely mechanical and electronically minded, but I am a meagre bio/chem/geology/maths student and hence lack the knowhow. Anyway: I acquired myself some short plastic tubing, in this instance, 22.5cm long. Must be plastic. Drainpipe works well. Block off one end with something very rigid; I personally got my friend to cut me a piece of circular wood. I sealed the thing in with petroleum jelly and some masking tape. Prepare a launch pad by using something more flexible and less dense. I actually just cut a round of thick cardboard and covered it in plastic backing paper. Again, waterproofing crucial. It should fit in the tube snugly and tightly.. Next, I gathered up lots of effervescent tablets. They can be those vitamin C, the soluble codeine, whatever. I had 59 (I ate one), and I used the vitamin C. I could get loads of them very cheaply at a discount chemist nearby. Next, add NO MORE than 30cm cubed of water. Remember to keep the thing horizontal the entire time. QUICKLY slip the launch pad in, push the (not too big) potato down to rest on the launch pad and if everything has gone to plan, the potato SHOULD shoot out after a short while. When I tried it, it didn’t work the first few times as my launch pad didn’t fit tightly enough, hence the gas escaped instead of building the pressure. I overcame this problem by putting a few extra layers of backing plastic on the launch pad (it worked like a rubber stop) and extra petroleum jelly. Needless to say, the potato didn’t get very far, barely two metres and ONLY horizontal. These experiments could be elaborated on - perhaps to determine the number of tablets needed to move a particular potato a particular distance, or seeing of altering the mass of potato in conjunction with the number of tablets had any effect on the distance. I was trying to work out the number of moles of CO2 produced per tablet, but due to poor labelling this was impossible. Sorry for a crap, very hurried experiment but my exams are in a few weeks and I don’t have much time. Georgina Xx 8 comments|post comment

your new manager has arrived! [06 May 2005|08:18am] dsuursoo Well, folks, in the wake of the near-death of this community, postapocalypse has gone and made me a manager. so, first, an introduction: ( Read more... ) here's what i'd like to do for you: set out a monthly challenge - this is more for concept than execution. i throw out a goal, you come up with how to get there. points for most creative idea. news item of the week - i'm going to try and throw out a news story or two each monday for your interest. this will be all weirdest edge stuff. like how beer makes you more clever. interesting websites - this will be as i find them. i actually make a habit(and it drives my wife nuts) of finding sites that cover interesting or unusual applications of engineering or science. this installment: the gizmologist's workshop. a rather fun site run by Bill Johns. he definetly takes the 'coolest dad' award. so, this month's challenge: take a potato. figure out a device/way to make that potato go as fast and as far as possible. pressurized gas/steam, pyrotechnics, springs, rockets are all allowed as propulsion. primary rules: the design should be robust enough to handle the forces exerted, shoot in a reasonably straight line, and be a breech-loading design preferably. simplicity counts big in this design. responses should be in the community itself, and let's keep feedback polite, if not positive. 5 comments|post comment

well, I WAS thinking of joining, but... [05 May 2005|07:43am] gomeza The group name sounds interesting. My GF forwards a post from this group to the Denver Mad Scientists Club mailing list which actually seems like it's about mad scientist type tinkering, so I come here to check out the other posts, and... I find a bunch of questions asking for help with high school science classes and a bunch of dead body photos yoinked from Something Awful. *YAWN* I go to the group info page to see what the charter / purpose is, and there's nothing informative or useful there. Is anyone here (besides you, MindFractals - we've already chatted elsewhere) actually doing any "mad science"? You know: tampering with Things Man Was Not Meant To Know, making your own lightning, blowing up your garage, making your neighbors lights flicker from the drain on your power lines, that sort of thing? Or am I just looking in the wrong group? Because if this group's purpose is for posting crime scene photos, that's fine for you guys, but I can find that lots of other places if I want it, and frankly, I'm not really interested. So can someone explain the group's name to me? To give you an idea of some of the things I'm into: Tesla coils railguns (real ones) fighting robots (the DMSC originated formalized fighting robot competitions in 1985) electrothermal guns (AKA steam cannons) coin shrinking other pulsed power experiments home brew particle accelerators laboratory high vacuum equipment cryogenics science & engineering-related art: plasma sculptures, kinetic / mechanical sculptures, etc. siege engines - trebs, cats, pumpkin or bowling ball launchers, etc. collecting antique scientific, electronic, and medical instruments and more... 6 comments|post comment

[04 May 2005|08:03pm] dsuursoo my wife thinks i'm insane. i told her what i'm going to do with our old microwave oven. i dunno about the rest of you, but a desktop carbon arc welder will be a handy thing for me to have. it's really not that hard. granted, using a pure sine wave could make for a messy arc, at 60hz, but i really think that for what i'll use it for, it'll be perfect. and i'll get a high power bridge rectifier in the future and do some DC welding. anyone know where i could get a schematic for a square wave generator? 4 comments|post comment

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