Science experiments with Theo Gray
Theo Gray is a columnist at Popular Science (a magazine I loved to read as a child). This website features a collection of experiments that you "can do at home, but probably shouldn't."
The fake food parade
Don't pick on Taco Bell. Or rather, don't pick on only Taco Bell.
How the other planets would look at moon distance
How big would the other planets in the solar system look if they orbited the earth as far away as our moon?
On banning free plastic bags
I just don't get it. Just look at the damage being done by allowing free plastic bags and ask yourself why we can't motivate ourselves to ban free plastic bags. If we, as a country, can't make this obviously necessary move, are we capable of anything at all? If some Middle Eastern terrorist dumped this amount of crap all over our country (and world), we'd declare war to seek revenge. But we're doing this to ourselves, so it's OK. And what about bottled water? The ends simply don't justify the means. We are being poisoned by free market fundamentalism.
One million pages
Dangerous Intersection is almost five years old, and we've hit a milestone in terms of traffic. In January, 2011, we served out one million pages (1,040,351, to be exact). January was our biggest traffic month so far. We had 230,724 visitors, and 134,695 of those visitors were unique visitors. We averaged 139,404 hits per day and 7,400 visitors per day. Amazing that all of this traffic does not quite pay for our hosting (through the ads), but none of the authors at this site ever expected to make money at DI (we haven't yet made a penny). Anyway, if you were one of our many new visitors last month, welcome. Please understand that we welcome your comments, especially if you disagree with us.