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The Way We Define A Kilogram Could Change Next Week

Science & Health

2 years ago

The Way We Define A Kilogram Could Change Next Week

Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Your GPS Probably Overestimates Distance

Science & Health

5 years ago

Your GPS Probably Overestimates Distance

Jamie Condliffe

A Woman Wore Her Fitbit During Sex And Replicated A Classic Experiment

Gadgets

5 years ago

A Woman Wore Her Fitbit During Sex And Replicated A Classic Experiment

Diane Kelly

Redditor noveltysin wore her Fitbit while she had sex, and shared the resulting graph of her heart rate with the world. Check out how well her graph matches the heart rates in Figure 1 of the classic 1956 paper Physiological Responses During Coitus.

How Early Astronomers Managed To Measure Cosmic Distances

Science & Health

5 years ago

How Early Astronomers Managed To Measure Cosmic Distances

Jamie Condliffe

Science & Health

5 years ago

What Good Is Measuring An Erection?

Diane Kelly

You may have noticed some news around these weird sounding devices that measure “arousal”. They don’t. But they do measure changes in penile shape, and as such, can give users a rough estimate — in a non-invasive way — of how much blood is flowing into the penis during erection.