Humor

" An intellectual is someone who, sitting opposite a very attractive person on the train, still looks first at what book they're reading." Thanks to Jack of Kent tweet. ...

Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Apr 20 2010 - 5:31am

A Science Spin On Health And Safety

A Science Spin On Health And Safety I've sat through a few health and safety talks, often including such gems as, "don't reach objects on high shelves by standing on a swivel chair while wearing rollerskates",... The Lay Scientist: htt ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 20 2010 - 8:20pm

What are scientists reading?

I recently took a look around my department to see what academic scientists are reading. I ignored the stacks of research papers, because I know that no-one ever gets around to reading them. It seems that the most common reading materials for academic scie ...

Blog Post - Adam Retchless - Apr 24 2010 - 8:50am

Why So Many Earthquakes? Maybe The Norse End Of The World Will Beat The Mayans

The End of the World seems to roll around every decade or so. The last time it got a lot of press was the year 2000 A.D., a millennial event in the Gregorian calendar. COBOL programmers were the convenient catalyst for all that, since banks would shut ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 7 2011 - 3:20pm

Ironic bathing

Now if we could just eliminate 1980s neon sunglasses and skinny jeans... From tfd. ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Apr 26 2010 - 9:07pm

The Quote Of The Week

" The basic goal for CDF is to measure the energy, momentum, and, where possible, the identity, of particles produced at the Tevatron collider over as large a fraction of the solid angle as practical. Our strategy to accomplish this was to surround th ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 27 2010 - 11:53am

A Population Crisis The Left And Right Can Agree On

Population science is more art than science so you can count on me to be a little skeptical. However, there are times when the numbers are just too alarming and we have to mobilize for action. What is this looming population catastrophe? It's Elvis im ...

Article - Cash Simpson - Apr 27 2010 - 4:45pm

Tying it all together

H/t to the huz and Matt Bors. ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Apr 28 2010 - 12:28pm

100% No Zombies

This weekend, someone once again wanted my assurance that Project Calliope would not cause an environmental disaster when it reenters at the end of its mission. Earlier I'd discussed how it will completely burn up on reentry, leaving nothing that coul ...

Article - Project Calliope - May 25 2010 - 12:06pm

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Before he was House on the TV series named... "House"... Hugh Laurie was a comedian; you know, one of those smug types UK people love, except he was actually funny. In this clip, he and fellow comedian Stephen Fry (fun fact- they were introduc ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 2 2010 - 6:05pm