Top Ten Messages Left On Rod Blagojevich’s Answering Machine
“I’m calling about your Senate seat on Craigslist. Want to trade for a futon?”
Daily Archives: December 12, 2008
My Hovercraft is Full of Eels
Hungarian phrasebook sketch comes to life
The journal of the Max Planck Research Institute was hit by this little problem: they used some lovely Chinese calligraphy on their cover without looking up the meaning.
Johnny on the Spot
Memorize these phrases to learn the first eighteen elements – when you are done, make up your own phrases for some of the others.
Happy Henry Likes Beer But Could Not Obtain Four Nuts
That gives us the first 10: Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, Beryllium, Boron, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Fluorine, Neon.
Naughty Magpies Always Sing Perfect Songs Clawing Ants
That gives us the next 8: Sodium (NA), Magnesium, Aluminum, Silicon, Phosphorous, Sulfur, Chlorine, Argon
Personally, I prefer Lehrer, but that’s not the elements in order
Doctor Obvious Publishes Again
A study published in the current issue of the journal Sexual Health found that science students were more likely to be virgins than their artsy classmates.
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Nature podcast editor Adam Rutherford has a few ideas. “I just hate it when stereotypes are right,” he posted on the UK’s Guardian website. “The research does not go into the potential causes of this lack of bedroom activity by my boffin brethren, nor does it detail the worthy sacrifice of cheap carnal thrills for rational agility and mental development, which I have convinced myself lies at the root of this problem. That, and the personal hygiene issues.”