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Date: June 10th, 2008

Not Even the iPhone Can Do This

10 June, 2008 (19:41) | Food, Physics, Tech | 5 comments

The teaser for the evening news just showed a clip of cellphones purportedly popping popcorn, and asking the question of whether it’s a hoax. My money’s on yes. Wired has a story on it, and there’s more than one video.
Assume a kernel has 0.1 g of water in it. You need to [...]

No, That’s Not a Euphemism

10 June, 2008 (07:18) | Silly | 1 comment

Conn. police find pipe bomb stuffed inside chicken
The road was closed while the Hartford Police Department’s bomb squad came and blew up the chicken.
Sorry I’m late. I was waiting for someone to blow up the chicken.

Release the Press Hounds!

10 June, 2008 (03:49) | Experiments, Journalism, Physics | 1 comment

I was poking around the toobz (looking for a citation or link to something about “slow light”) and ran across this press release from last year that made me clench and then start grinding my teeth. I have no idea who vets these things, but OMFG, it’s bad. The press latches onto these [...]

A for Effort. C for Content.

10 June, 2008 (03:48) | Education, Physics | 1 comment

Via Talk Like a Physicist, an ad campaign by Science World in Vancouver BC. (and I have a vague recollection of visiting it back when I lived slaved there as a postdoc)

I can’t find any link to this at the Science World web site but then this is apparently from a little while ago (other [...]

 

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