Wed. 02/03 - Are We Too Cynical for Viral Stunts These Days?

What causes ice ages? The science behind your frying pan. You know, the one that’s supposed to be non-stick but isn’t. Scientists explain why. Other scientists have engineered spinach to send emails. Sort of. And did you hear about the Hollyboob prank? If not, or if you supremely don’t care, it may say more about our current relationship to viral stunts than the stunt in question.

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Links:

• Ice Ages: What Causes the Earth to Freeze Over Every Few Million Years? (Discover Magazine)
• Glad You Asked: Ice Ages – What are they and what causes them? (Utah Geological Society)
• The un-ice age (Earthdata, NASA)
• Scientists Explain Why Food Still Sticks to Your Stupid Non-Stick Pan (Gizmodo)
• Scientists have taught spinach to send emails (Euro News)
• Nanobionic spinach plants can detect explosives (MIT News)
• Spinach email joke (Ambrose Persimmon, Twitter)
• Why an influencer turned the Hollywood sign into the Hollyboob sign (CNET)
• 'Hollyboob' and the End of the Viral Stunt (MEL)
• Kottke.Org
• Jackson Bird on Twitter