See if you can spot the glaringly-wrong point the brilliant astrophysicist makes in this video. In case you missed it, it’s at 2:45 when he defines what an “all-good” god is: …[god is all-good] if we def...

One of my biggest fears is deep water. I have always wondered why I'm so afraid of it. One time I was jet skiing in the Cayman Islands and I was cruising around within 50 yards of the shore. One of the boat captains had previou...

Do you sort of watch Mythbusters if you happen to flip to it when there's not really anything else on and then you keep watching because you enjoy how much the chick looks like the annoying Progressive commercial lady and how s...

I can’t help it, I am intrigued by things that may seem pointless or boring to you. For instance I love telling people that there are more possible chess game outcomes than atoms in the universe. I usually get one of two ...

There has been an explosion of references to squid & octopuses (cephalopods) since my first post about them. I have been putting these references in the comments of the post so as not to clutter up The Gimcrack Miscellany,...

330 feet deep. Swallowed 12 homes suddenly. The pit emitted foul odors, loud noises and tremors, shaking the surrounding ground. A rush of water could be heard from its depths… I have a fear of voids, so that’s all ...

I found another cool video that is similar to the one in this post about the distances in our universe, however this video compares the sizes of celestial bodies such as Earth, Jupiter, the Sun and more. Previously, I thought t...