Yoda has Tenure
Funny, it is.
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… And Now to Our Man in the Street
(name has been obscured to protect the innocent)
I’m envious. Someone put this on our relativistic van, and it wasn’t me!
The Twinkie Offense and Defense
Meet the Twinkie of particle physics: the muon.
The muon is the sponge cake of elementary particles. It’s plump, basic, easy to mass-produce and disappears quickly—much like a Twinkie.
Second, despite our relatively long lifespan, we are nothing like a Twinkie, which seems to have an infinite shelf life.
Much like Wonder Bread, the Twinkie’s expiration date is “You should live so long”
These Are Rights, not Commandments
The Physicists’ Bill of Rights
We hold these postulates to be intuitively obvious, that all physicists are born equal, to a first approximation, and are endowed by their creator with certain discrete privileges, among them a mean rest life, n degrees of freedom, and the following rights which are invariant under all linear transformations
There’s actually a few of these “rights” that I think should earn a slap to anyone exercising them, but I’m just going to assume the author was thinking of string theorists and not worry too much.
We’ll All Get Temperamental and Hard to Work With, but You Won’t Care! Because We’ll All Make a Lot of Money!
The Muppet Show pitch
What Do Elderberries Smell Like?
This, and more, answered (sort of) by Michael Palin John Cleese
Those Funny Physicists
This SMBC comic showing a physics-y practical joke reminds me: you may recall that last spring, somebody filled a colleague’s office waist-deep with balloons.
Playing on that, I created the illusion of filling an office with packing peanuts.
It’s just one grocery bag of peanuts filling the window, though.
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