February 2012
20 posts
i forgot how much i missed ricky martin till i saw...
get in line, chatura =DDDD
whotoldyouthatyouwerenaked:
You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral
thereisafish:
You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets...
January 2012
20 posts
6 Myths Everyone Believes about Space (Thanks to... →
Our knowledge of outer space is a lot like our knowledge of history — it’s really hard to separate what we know from research from what we picked up from movies. In both cases, this means that a lot of our everyday knowledge about space is just laughably wrong.
Yep, it’s not enough for space to make us feel small — it needs to make us feel stupid, too.
Mitt Romney’s tax returns shed some light on his... →
grrlpower:
cognitivedissonance:
Here’s what we’ve all been waiting for, folks:
The couple gave away $7 million in charitable contributions over the past two years, including at least $4.1 million to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Romneys sent somewhat less to Washington over that period, paying an estimated $6.2 million in federal income taxes. According to his 2010...
December 2011
38 posts
HEY RACHEL!
orangejulius91:
whateva. 111 goals in 112 games. you just mad
ATLAS and CMS experiments present Higgs search... →
13 December 2011. In a seminar held at CERN1 today, the ATLAS2 and CMS3 experiments presented the status of their searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson. Their results are based on the analysis of considerably more data than those presented at the summer conferences, sufficient to make significant progress in the search for the Higgs boson, but not enough to make any conclusive...
Optics Lab
We had tours of the optics labs today as a last class. It got pretty rad when Dr. Pittman referenced “Spooky action at a distance”