Swans on Tea

A post over at The Quantum Pontiff reminded me of these mildly dyslexic terms in the title, one of which gets corrected at Google.

(I wonder, do dyslexics read “dyslexia” as “daily sex,” as in “I suffer from daily sex?”)

Just when you think things can’t get any sillier. Boeing Patent Shuts Down AMC-14 Lunar Flyby Salvage Attempt
Primarily this is because SES is currently suing Boeing for an unrelated New Skies matter in the order of $50 million dollars - and Boeing told SES that the patent was only available if SES Americom dropped [...]

The Cup Stops Here
Former MLB player Mark Littel puts his balls on the line provides empirical data in a kinematics experiment to demonstrate the effectiveness of a cup.
Cinematic commentary: Neither the acting nor the dialogue are as good as in the classic “George C. Scott hit in the groin with a football”
You won’t hear [...]

Over at Skulls in the Stars, gg issues the challenge to science bloggers: read and research an old, classic scientific paper and write a blog post about it.
I’d love to do “The behavior of gauntlets under the influence of applied forces and gravity” by Juan Duelist.
Seriously, though, I already have one [...]