New Scientist video round-up - September 19, 2008

[masonpalmer1]

Where do people with the Ceurstemont surname come from:

United Kingdom (50%)

Belgium (50%)

[Sadoda777]

She sounds like Swedish baker from Family Guy

[undeadratchetsux]

thats when my birthday is!!!!!!

[eqe2e23e]

so all it took to verify the theory that was probably also in textbooks was to look through the right lens (i figure that's pretty old knowledge) and it took until 2008 for at least someone in the world to do that??? omg :(

[qjtrinh]

She can sell us some Lucky Charms cereal.

[Shallamas]

feminist...

[hoipolloy]

it was only a matter of time....i thought of this about 15 years ago......damn it!!!!!

[chris7777777777777]

Thanks for the awesome video

[ryanx84]

haha - the fastest living organism = the fungus in cow poo!! - excellent!

[caebc]

nice...congratulations for the news

[Paxmax]

Oohhhhh.. I love high speed camera footage!!!

...maybe that's why I have such an affinity for Mythbusters!

That was nice ad for "every action has a equal reaction"!

Thank yous!

[iamhottyah]

Dude here ow it works your name is spelled G-E-E-K!

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[Rand0081]

and iamhottyah is spelled sucker

[metalhed42]

her accent is HOT

[smartisdana]

Very fascinating. :D I shall subscribe. :D

[heathazed]

Personally I find the Scottish accent grating. No disrespect, simply a matter of taste. Cool vid btw.

[ToxicRainDrop]

HOLY FUCK her accent is SO DAM ANNOYING. its pronouned now! not nar!

[nepenthe1111]

HOLY FUCK your spelling is ANNOYING, too.

It's "pronounced," not pronouned. And "Damn," not damn. Heh, I guess you're just using incorrect words instead of misspelling them.

Man, grow a brain, and then you can have an opinion.

[Rez952]

Try learning a new language before speaking, buddy

[iamhottyah]

yah um like yo peeps r um geeks hahahahahahahahahahahahahah and the guy who i'm dating David jhons is here he agrees! i dont care if its spelled wrong pEOPLES!

[jack0022]

Yah um well like if David jhons agrees, then damnit, it must be true.

[nepenthe1111]

um yah like David jhons must be a total genius, hahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[gumbomambo]

I hope David jhons is castrated...so u guys can't reproduce. The world is already dumb enough

[KnightChatX]

That's what I was hoping they'd add for many years now, make vehicles automated on the roads by laying something down the vehicles can use to retrieve, compare, and calculate positioning information so vehicles can move along the roads using that information. Like GPS, and to overcome the problems associated with relative programming and GPS/signal accuracy.

Like is in that buss.

[KnightChatX]

Sweet

[Q3o5]

That bus thing was cool..

[acs1978au]

It never fails to amaze me at the sheer ignorance and intolerance that people have towards others. Even with the contribution that the Scots have made towards science and engineering, there are still some moronic comments.

[halo3d]

why the fuck is she talking like that

[russlandrussland]

.... she's Scottish.

[dunnonuffink]

"why the fuck is she talking like that "

*facepalm*

You do know that people in different places speak differently than you do where you live?

That's why.

[mumalu8]

omg i want a blogjob 2

[saejinoh]

narrator is getting better at controlling her voice. keep it up.

[regaliatwentytwo]

Wow! That Spore is very interesting!

Does anyone know the name of the spore in the video? I'd like to look into it more 8B

[Truthiness231]

Yup, sure do:

They mention in the article linked to on the original New Scientist spore shooting vid that there were four species studied but didn't give any specie names, so I googled around a little and found sphaerobolus stellatus. It's been known about by scientists for quite some time, but granted they didn't have the ability to measure it's potential until now.

For more: botit(dot)botany(dot)wisc(dot)­edu/toms_fungi/jul2005(dot)htm­l

Replace all those (dot)s with periods, obviously ^.^

[suroj]

Wow, the buses. great idea

[Draeka]

Her accent makes her hot. I mean imagine her wailing in Scottish.  I'm sold.

[Altezza07]

the other voice is hotter !!!

[zgitzoid]

are these fungi psylocibe?

[Ariji86]

oh valerie... are you hiding something?

[Sergiuss555]

she is..

[11Markus66]

noooo jesus is faster than fungi!

[akaCharlieG]

rofl

[krneel128]

I just love the comments on this.

[BF2mods]

these newscientist group are english ?

[Zaunstar]

She sounds Scottish actually.

[MrPogi87]

No, she sounds IIIRRRIIIISSSH

[GetMeThere1]

"Noh rrred fesh!" hehehe

[aquamammal]

Science rules.

XVX for life, R.A.S.H. 'til death.

[Exoskull969]

i like the bus thing, interesting