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Dark Energy Drink For The Healthy Physicist In You

Dark Energy Drink For The Healthy Physicist In You

Jul 20 2010 | comment(s)

At Jonathan Rosenberg's excellent "Scenes From A Multiverse" ...

Get ripped in defiance of conventional physics: Dark Energy brand energy drink replaces 74% of your muscles with Dark Muscles. 


Like it?  Buy a print here.
Which came first, the scientist or the sensationalist?

Which came first, the scientist or the sensationalist?

Jul 19 2010 | comment(s)

Casey Rentz takes that whole chicken-egg silliness (solved! say headlines) and gets to the meat of the issue in Which came first, the scientist or the sensationalist?

It isn't just pageview-whoring journalists and media companies, Casey notes, but researchers and PIOs at institutions as well.
Web publications want flashy news. Press officers want to glorify their own institution. Scientists want to attract new funding. It's a reinforced loop that can in some situations lead to the printing of truly questionable material, as the chicken and egg article so plainly illustrates.
Swedish PhD candidate can kick your butt in Soccer too

Swedish PhD candidate can kick your butt in Soccer too

Jul 18 2010 | comment(s)

Most of us are good at one thing; sports or science - Josh Witten is an exception but he may have found his match in Sweden's Elin Ekblom-Bak, who jacks up goals for a professional women's football team and still has time to work  in the Department of Medicine at the Karolinska Institute and the Astrand Laboratory of Work Physiology in the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences.


Sandalism! Strange Sand Animals Appear All Over London

Sandalism! Strange Sand Animals Appear All Over London

Jul 18 2010 | comment(s)

Strange creatures have been inhabiting London’s construction sites. Artist Zara Gaze knows more about their nocturnal origins.



Artist Zara Gaze calls the installations “sandalism” - I call it awesome.   http://sandalism.co.uk/ for lots more cool stuff.
Old School Scientists Get The Star Treatment - Rachel Weisz As Astronomer Hypatia In 'Agora'

Old School Scientists Get The Star Treatment - Rachel Weisz As Astronomer Hypatia In 'Agora'

Jul 18 2010 | comment(s)

Hypatia was, if we are being honest, one of the sexiest women ever -  not because of looks, on that we have no clue, but because this fourth century citizen scientists discovered the sun was the center of the universe a thousand years before Copernicus did.  Smart women rule.

And, if you go for that sort of thing, she was a total pagan in a land of Christian expansion, and she kept boytoys around for her amusement.   

Rachel Weisz Hypatia
Shii - The Wii for Women (not safe for work at the end)

Shii - The Wii for Women (not safe for work at the end)

Jul 18 2010 | comment(s)

Ladies, are you tired of your significant other buying wargames and stupid cartoony things with fake Italian accents?    Wish the Wii could be more practical?   Here it is ... the Shii.
A botanical guide to Thanksgiving dinner

A botanical guide to Thanksgiving dinner

Nov 28 2009 | comment(s)

This disappeared from the Internet after I wrote Awesome Thanksgiving Science last year so I found an archive version before it disappears for good.

Original link: http://www.kimmerer.com/a-botanical-guide-to-thanksgiving-dinner/

Archimedes And The Principles Of Calculus

Archimedes And The Principles Of Calculus

Oct 04 2007 | comment(s)

In 1998, Christie's Auction House of London auctioned off a musty old prayer book for two million dollars. 

What they thought was just a prayer book contained Greek inscriptions and accompanying diagrams that turned out to be the only surviving copies of several works by Archimedes from over 2,000 years earlier. And the researchers discovered that Archimedes was working out principles that, centuries later, would form the heart of calculus and that he had a more sophisticated understanding of the concept of infinity than anyone had realized.