New Article: Book Review of "13 Things That Don't Make Sense"(May '13)

The smartasses at timeblimp present our new book review of Michael Brooks' "13 Things That Don't Make Sense", a book that tours thirteen of the most compelling unsolved phenomena in science. Which of the thirteen wound up being solved after the publication of this book? Which one relates to the Best Name For a Scientific Concept in the history of the world? Read on to find out!

New Article: The Naughty, Naughty Life of Pi (March '13)

You've seen the number Pi written out, right? Have you ever looked for... (dramatic voice) unusual patterns in the digits of Pi? In this new article, we apply complex pattern-matching algorithms using high-performance computing clusters to... look for swear words in Pi. And we found 'em!

TimeBlimp: Get Your Geek On

Welcome to Timeblimp!

“Oh hey, I didn’t see you there!  Welcome!”

Ugh, that kind of intro is so hackneyed, that making fun of it is now also hackneyed.

You’ve found one of the foremost sites on the web for information you really don’t need.  This is where people go to arm themselves with facts to annoy others at parties.  No, we don’t mean political discussions, or how to make a better faux-hawk — the harmless facts, the interesting trivia that make life interesting.  The facts that sound better described using a nasal voice.  The dorky facts.

Math          Yeah, that’s right.  Math.
Science     She blinded me with bursts of coherent photons to the face!
History     And leather elbow patches.
People      Feeling good about yourself lately?  Cut that crap out.
Culture     We drain the fun out of the art you love.
Opinion     Opinions are like mitochondria, everyone’s got about 10 billion.
Original Research    Why yes, that is a Macarthur Genius Grant that I’m picking my teeth with.
    We’ve hunted around for the interesting stories that we think are really cool.  Not just what techno-geeks and supreme academics will think of as cool  — I for one have heard how the transistor works one too many times — but the really cool stories about the world that even the algebra-disadvantaged could appreciate.And we’ve tried to find relatively obscure topics, stuff not covered by yer typical PBS show or Popular Mechanics article.  You’re not going to see much here on the causes of the Civil War, or on Relativity Theory.  The History Channel has pretty much wrote the book on World War II, and I think everyone on earth now knows that to a topologist, a doughnut is identical to a coffee cup.  But did you hear about the insects that understand prime numbers?  Or the day that America had no government at all?

     Caveat:    At the moment, we’re still bootstrapping ourselves up into a respectable website — which is to say, we are not a respectable website.  Don’t be surprised if an article is unfinished, or is poorly written — eventually we will fix the first problem.  Please stop by now and again, as we add essays on important topics to the dork community.  For now, we are proud (in a geeky sort of way) to present the smattering of content we could come up with on a weekend afternoon…


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