Swans on Tea

McCain’s Voice Mail to Palin Leaked to Press
(To aide) I can’t hear you. Will you grow a pair?

NFL TV Distribution maps
Maps showing what games are scheduled to be televised in that area.
What do the grey areas mean?
Welcome to the world of blackout rules. The short answer is: no game at all. This can be due to one of two rules: a) no games can air at the same time as a local [...]

Air Speed Velocity of Various Objects According to Monty Python
Conspicuously absent is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow (African and European both missing). Fortunately, that can be found here.

This month’s Physical Review Focus: Nanoparticles Stick a Perfect Landing
They found that for speeds less than 1.2 kilometers per second, the nanoparticle bounces off the surface like a basketball. But at higher speeds, some of the nanoparticle undergoes a phase transition to a compressed state called β-tin, where each atom bonds to six neighbors. [...]

From Google Maps to Gold Medal
Kristin Armstrong, who won gold in the Women’s Individual Time Trial in Road Cycling, got a GPS track when she rode the Beijing Olympic course in December of 2007
After returning home to Boise, Idaho, I exported the GPS data to several different formats, one of which I was able to [...]

You can use NMR to tell you if it’s still good, and now you can tell how old the bottles are by hitting them with an ion beam.
Nuclear Physicists Fight Wine Fraud
The beams, which are directed at the glass, not the wine, can distinguish how old the bottles are and where they might originate.
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To prevent [...]