Swans on Tea

John Hodgman at Radio & TV Correspondents’ Dinner
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It’s not the squirrel smasher, but it’s close. Abstruse Goose does the Toad Totaler
But … stationary target? It would be much more efficient to have the lab frame also be the center-of-mass frame (i.e. counter-propagating frogs)

A Unified Quantum Theory of the Sexual Interaction
In the simplest theories of the sexual interaction, the eigenstates of the Hamiltonian describing all allowed forms of two-body coupling are identified with the conventional gender states, “Male” and “Female” denoted |M> and |F> in the Dirac bra-ket notation; note that the bra is superfluous in this [...]

The Onion: NASA Embarks On Epic Delay
Top officials at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration unveiled plans this week for a comprehensive, multibillion-dollar delay—the agency’s most ambitious postponement of cosmic exploration ever.
The unprecedented delay has reportedly brought together the nation’s foremost aerospace engineers, whose combined efforts have already added 18 months of rescheduled meetings [...]

Ten things to do In the Event That You Have Accidentally Swallowed the Higgs Boson
6. If the Higgs boson begins creating mass in your esophagus or stomach before you reach a hospital, you will need to perform an immediate bosonectomy on yourself. Luckily, surgical knowledge is not necessary. Just choose from the array of probable [...]

Dr Bunsen Honeydew- Gorilla Detector
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I know, scientifically, that I am not being eaten by a gorilla!

My blog host folks have a good sense of humor.

Pseudoscience Forums. Heh.
Last year they did a word swap. IIRC, if you wrote “science” it came out as “religion” after you posted, along with a couple of others.

Missed opportunities for other people.
A few weeks ago, there was a version of “musical towels” going on at the gym. Several people keep their towels on hangers outside their lockers, and apparently somebody forgot to bring their towel in — so they borrowed one (which is pretty gross — this is the guys’ locker [...]

A Dialog With Sarah …
Ask a scientist “why,” and they can often go many rounds.
SARAH: Why?
DAD: Why is soap a surfactant?
SARAH: Yes.
DAD: That is an EXCELLENT question. Soap is a surfactant because it forms water-soluble micelles that trap the otherwise insoluble dirt and oil particles.
SARAH: Why?
DAD: Why does soap form micelles?
SARAH: Yes.
DAD: Soap molecules are [...]

Optical Illusion Girlfriend

The Secret Lives of Photons

Famous art, Simpsonized