CENtral Science

Amusing News Aliquots

Silly samplings from this week’s science news, compiled by Bethany Halford and Lauren Wolf.

Credit: Flickr user snelly23

Putting water on cereal is weird. Now there’s science to prove it. [Discoblog]

Buying your own wedding ring is for weaklings. This guy forged his from a meteorite. [io9]

Roadkill, it’s no longer just good eats. It’s doing science. [Wired]

Welcome to the age of social media: Hospital in Houston live tweets a brain surgery, with video and photos. Click to see the Storify-ed version. [Memorial Hermann/Storify]

Mathematician reveals how he beat the roulette wheel in the 1970s with wearable computer. [New Scientist]

When your parrot curses a blue streak, does it know what it’s saying? [Slate]