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All Theories Proven With One Graph from The Journal of Irreproducible Results

I knew that I would.
[T]he placebo theory of suffering is one window through which to view blogging. As social creatures, humans have a range of pain-related behaviors, such as complaining, which acts as a “placebo for getting satisfied,” Flaherty says. Blogging about stressful experiences might work similarly.
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Located mainly in the midbrain, the limbic system controls [...]

but plenty of ‘bots. Crazy robots go wild in California

The song of the humpback
Only the males sing, which has led many scientists to theorize that they croon to attract females. The hole in this argument, though, is that no one has ever seen a female whale show any interest in a male’s song.
Just because women show no interest doesn’t mean a guy isn’t doing [...]

Electrons and photons in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer show differences in their behavior
The output signal hit a minimum every time the two electron waves cancelled and a maximum when the waves maximally reinforced one another. But as they increased the current, the interference pattern waxed and waned in amplitude in an unexpected way, disappearing altogether at [...]

(Rhodium being a very expensive metal)
Nigerian phishing email
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More video that doesn’t have George C. Scott saying, “My Groin!” The Science Of Ball To Groin at glumbert. (Some annoying ads — and nothing else — tend to pop up on the video) This time, tennis balls (the projectile, not the target), while last time it was a baseball, but with [...]

It’s a hand-held catapult-like device to chuck things, and yes, those projectiles are small nun figurines. So, it’s a NUN-CHUCK, just like it says.

I don’t show this off to just anyone at the office; I wait until I know them and use my judgement. But this is the internet. Caveat emptor.
I really [...]

One project over the last several weeks has been winding coils for the atomic fountains. There are two different requirements, one is the so-called “C-field” coils and the second is the MOT (magneto-optic trap) coil pair.
The “C-field” is the bias field in an atomic clock that essentially tells the atoms which way [...]

I just read that the Chicago Bulls won the NBA draft lottery, meaning that the team with the worst record did not gain the first overall pick in the draft. Color me shocked. It was termed a “surprise” in some stories. Maybe it was a surprise that they won it, but not [...]

Zapperz, back from vacation, notes that Willis Lamb passed away recently. The Lamb shift, the energy splitting of the 2s and 2p states of the hydrogen atom, was a huge confirmation of quantum electrodynamics and garnered him the Nobel prize, and you can read more about that here. But that’s not the only [...]

As fate would have it, Knopfler’s “Coyote” came up on the commute playlist this afternoon. But ACME supplied all of the Looney Tunes characters with products.
The Illustrated Catalog Of ACME Products
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