We Interrupt Your 21st Century To Bring You A Lil’ Bit O’ Science

We interrupt your cushy,twenty-first century lifestyle to bring you a little science. Some of the modernconveniences we take for granted were happy accidents while in the pursuit of oh-so-sexyscientific truth. Mess up your job, you get fired. Scientist messes up his job, he invents Viagra! Everybody wins?

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Edwardo Jackson

Oct 17, 2012

En route to the TV, we got x-rays. And they say nothing good ever comes from TV.

You can thank a clumsy French scientist for keeping your forehead from the curb.

From radars to heat rays? Lazy, single men all over the world salute you, Raytheon.

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