OMG this is TFF.
Have a cat that won’t stay off your counters? I do. I finally got fed up with it enough to do something about it: scare the crap out of him with a motion-detecting blender (while recording the results for my own amusement, of course).
How-I-did-it instructions are included in the link.
Of course, we now have empirical evidence that the number of times you must scare the crap out of a cat in order to modify its behavior is a minimum of 4.
Wouldn’t be science without data.
Combustion for the lactose-intolerant: a non-dairy creamer demonstration of a dust explosion. Fine particles have a lot of surface area, and in the right mixture, can combust. In a small delta-t.
You’ve been there. At a party or other gathering, a drink in one hand, a plate in the other, and no prehensile tail (obviously I’m excluding the writing staff of most reality-TV shows) so you can’t actually eat the food. Instead of cursing evolution, you can get the Fingerfood tray
[C]harming little plates with rings that fit right on your finger. Now you can balance your glass and your hors d’ouevres, and look positively in control the whole time.
From the folks that brought you the Gin & Titonic.
Because you are a valued customer and your opinion is important to us, we would like to periodically ask you to provide feedback regarding your experience with our hotels. The feedback we collect from our customers is used to make improvements to our hotels and processes so we can better serve you.
However, our records indicate that you have not given us permission to send customer survey invitations to you at this email address. If you would like the opportunity to provide occasional feedback, please give us permission to contact you (https://www.blahblahblah) at this email address to complete future surveys. This permission is for research purposes only and does not give us permission to send you any marketing or promotional information.
Thank you in advance for your feedback and for spending your time away from home at Marriott.
Sincerely,
J.W. Marriott, Jr.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Marriott International, Inc.
Um, no? Not in a house, not with a mouse?
Or, to use a phrase I learned in the navy: Not only no, but @%#$ no!
The point of “please don’t use my email to contact me” was “don’t contact me.”
OK, it wasn’t really misspent. Much. But I’ve done this, and lost some hair on my fingers doing so. The can gets pretty warm, too.
Important tidbit: Butane is heavier than air.
Worry no more! Kota the Triceratops is here to save the day.
What Makes Science ‘Science’? (free registration may be required)
Apparently, they isn’t.
Graduates, from a range of science disciplines and from a variety of universities in Britain and around the world, have a poor grasp of the meaning of simple terms and are unable to provide appropriate definitions of key scientific terminology. So how can these hopeful young trainees possibly teach science to children so that they become scientifically literate? How will school-kids learn to distinguish the questions and problems that science can answer from those that science cannot and, more importantly, the difference between science and pseudoscience?
Update: Commentary over at Effect Measure
Peach and Raspberry Gelatin Brain, Melon brain. Killer Rats Cake. Mmmmm. Killer Rats Cake …
It’s not you, it’s me. Really.
We seem to have had some technical problems.