Humor

Are You A Math Addict? The Facts On Numbers Junkies

Our offices are in a building in sunny Folsom, California, a town made most famous when Johnny Cash had a concert at the nearby prison (*).   It's one of those full service places where they have the phones and the furniture and a kitchen in the middl ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 11 2009 - 5:17pm

A New Approach to Science – If You Can’t Explain it Invent a Particle

Just a quick and humorous post for you. ...

Blog Post - Connor Davidson - Sep 23 2009 - 10:50am

Technology Challenge: Identify This Mystery Steampunk Object

A short while ago, the wife saw me working feverishly on yet another project, this one involving clothes, and came to investigate.   Why?   Well, she's pretty agreeable about work done outside or in the garage and mostly tolerant about things I do in ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 21 2009 - 12:16pm

Truth in Advertising

You have to admire her candor. * Photo courtesy of me, taken in parking lot at sushi place where I went for lunch. ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Aug 31 2009 - 6:03pm

A little science happy for the Labor Day weekend

Sadly, this is probably accurate for a good number of us... As is this... For the physicists among us: ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Sep 4 2009 - 8:40pm

Quote of the day

This applies to many facets of life, including scientific experimentation: "Things are getting worse faster than I can lower my standards." ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Sep 4 2009 - 7:26pm

Random Noise #17: They Sure Fooled Me!

Random Noise #17: They Sure Fooled Me! Well, they sure fooled me! I like to think that I know a thing or two about science and engineering.  Quite apart from that, I have read enough court transcripts to know when someone is telling porkies 1.  Or so I th ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Sep 5 2009 - 5:49pm

The Say of the Week

" The emission or absorption of a quantum by a nucleus bound in a crystal leads in general to an alteration of the vibrational state of the crystal lattice, which takes up the recoil momentum. On account of the quantization of the internal energy, the ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 12 2009 - 12:45pm

Third cutest baby ever? Or maybe it's just funny

Knowing Josh, he probably trademarked his Second Cutest Babies EVER series (check out the most recent post here), so in hopes of pre-empting IP lawsuits I went for one notch lower on the cutest baby ever list. It's a baby, a zoo animal, and really cut ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Sep 15 2009 - 8:49am

The Glamorous Life Of A Science Journalist

I recently attended the International Developmental Biological Congress in sunny Edinburgh, Scotland. Here is my diary. Day One Saturday, 8:15 AM: Arrive Edinburgh hotel, early. Wait for room in hotel bar.   Soccer, a hateful game, blares at 8:30 in the mo ...

Article - Greg Critser - Nov 15 2012 - 1:50pm