The Onion: Fans Of Victorious Nobel Laureates Riot In Stockholm
The annual announcement of Nobel Prize winners was once again marred by vandalism this year, with triumphant fans of the 2011 laureates mobbing Stockholm streets last week, breaking shop windows and setting bonfires as they celebrated remarkable achievements in economics, physics, medicine, and other disciplines.
Fear not, this is not about politics. It’s October, which is the time of year various physics blogs I read vie for your hard-earned money to support some worthy classroom projects through DonorsChoose. Rather than run a separate campaign against blogs that are in consortia and have wider readerships, I will merely point you toward them, and I will be donating through one of them.
The first announcement I have seen is from Dot Physics: It’s That DonorsChoose Time of the Year, and a post at Uncertain Principles has just appeared
Update: The Bad Astronomer also has a donation page
Diffraction With Infrared Light
… and visible light, too.
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