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OpenScience / Fun
Periodic Tales from the BBC
The BBC is doing a wonderful radio series on the periodic table called Periodic Tales. So far only ten elements have been profiled (He, Ag, Co, Se, O, As, Hg, I, Ni), but it looks like a great way to … Continue reading
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The Worst Jobs in Science
Do you have one of The Worst Jobs in Science? Popular science has ranked them this year. Here’s the list: Orangutan-Pee collector NASA Ballerina Do-Gooder Semen Washer Volcanologist Nuclear-Weapons Scientist Extremophile Excavator Kansas Biology Teacher Manure Inspector Human Lab Rat … Continue reading
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Online Unit Converter
We just found UnitConversion.org, an online unit converter with auto-complete and a pretty large database of odd units. It looks like a a great tool, although it is inexplicably lacking the Debye (which we were trying to convert to electron … Continue reading
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The Flo Control Project
I just stumbled across this great site. The owners of two mouse-happy cats wanted to prevent them from bringing them in the house, so they hacked an image recognition system onto a commercially available cat door that would compare the … Continue reading
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Tom Lehrer Video
The Internet Archive has this wonderful video of Tom Lehrer giving a mathematics concert. Or a piano and fourier transform lecture. Or something halfway between the best math class you’ve ever taken and a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. I’ve never … Continue reading
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Cell Phone or Schizophrenia?
I walked into campus this morning behind a woman speaking in a very loud voice to no one in particular. Her hands were gesticulating wildly and she sounded very agitated. She was wearing scruffy clothes, but that’s not very strange … Continue reading
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Everything you always wanted to know about blimps
After seeing a Goodyear Blimp floating above a recent Notre Dame / Michigan State football game, our kids had one simple question: Dad, Is there a bathroom on the blimp? This question followed a long exposition on my part on … Continue reading
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