Let’s go “corpsing,” shall we? You know, corpsing? As in let’s create a prop corpse for movie, Halloween or maybe even for nefarious pranking purposes? Usually this is expensive, but Propnomicon shows us how to make one on the cheap. More »
Up until now, crime scene investigators have relied mainly on sniffing dogs to discover buried bodies, but a probe with the thickness of a human hair could send the doggies off to early retirement if scientists have their way. More »
For three years, Georg Steinhauser spent his waking hours analysing the contents of his navel. In particular, he used his skills as a chemist to study 503 pieces of lint from within his belly button to create a scientific explanation for what causes your man-belly to collect fluff like a Sarlacc pit eating Jabba the Hutt’s foot soldiers. More »
Forget those GPS graves in the jungle we brought you a few weeks ago, because in the future what we’re really going to do is pour—yes pour—our loved ones down the drain with the help of some lye and an iron coffin contraption from BioSafe Engineering. The last hurdle, as always, will be to overcome the yuck factor many people experience when they realise this really does mean turning mum and pops into coffee syrup.
