After thousands of viral YouTube videos and one Weezer music video, scientists have finally given us an explanation as to how the mysterious Diet Coke and Mentos reaction happens.

Tonya Coffey, a physicist at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina and her students “tested the reactions between Diet Coke and fruit Mentos, mint Mentos, and various ingredients such as other mints, dish-washing detergent, table salt and sand. They also compared reactions using other fizzy liquids such as caffeine-free and sugary colas, as well as soda water and tonic water,” says ABC News.

Check out the Mentos/Diet Coke Secret after the jump! (more…)

For Christmas I got a Sharper Image giftcard from my girlfriend’s parents. $100 is not too shabby, but at Sharper Image, that isn’t enough to get anything good. SO I have been saving up. I work at a bar up here in Highland Falls, and pull in an extra couple hundred a week flirting with more middle-aged cougars than you could find on the Discovery Channel. Then those f**kers did the unimagineable. They now refuse to honor gift cards! How in the hell can they do that!? Is that even legal?!

Here is my issue from an Accounting 102 perspective. A gift card is a liability – it is similar to debt. Customers buy gift cards with the understanding of cashing them in for merchandise at a later time. When a company defaults or refuses to pay its debts – the companies assets are distributed to those who it owes outstanding debts. I am not saying that I should be allowed to ransack a Sharper Image store for $100 worth of high-tech crap, but no more should they be allowed to keep my $100. I mean WTF?!

Either way, those douchbags at Sharper Image are having a firesale at a bunch of locations. They are even going to liquidate some products online. Be careful, they may decide to charge you $100 extra and be like – “Eh…f**k it, it’s ours now!”

The Discovery Channel Store is running a killer deal on the ultimate stoner DVD series, Planet Earth HD.

Receive $50 off the listed $80 sticker price and get the Planet Earth Mini Series on HD DVD for $30 shipped (free shipping) at the Discovery Channel Store. If you haven’t seen Planet Earth, be prepared for the highest quality video compilation of our planet ever released.

The full savings on the series will only appear once you’ve added it to your shopping cart. Once purchased, roll up that doobie, order Dominos and/or Nachos from your local joint and have your mind blown by nature…in HD!

The BBC is investigating claims that “Man vs Wild” “misled viewers.” And Bear Grylls (former member of SAS, a career that ended when he broke his back in three places, after rehabilitation became the youngest Brit to climb Mt. Everest and return alive) isn’t as rugged as he seems on the show. Not that we all didn’t think some of “Man vs Wild” was staged for dramatic effect but a crew member told the Sunday Times of some pretty damning allegations. (more…)