Check out the DeMille group rigid rotor photo. Truly, a remarkable display.
(One of my students stumbled across this while researching grad schools, and showed it to me today.)
More like this
You know about the Heartland Strategy memo. It is one of several documents produced and used internally by the Heartland Institute, a minor Libertarian "Think" Tank, demonstrating some rather unsavory activities, which are now under preliminary investigation by the US Congress.
Looking at the ScienceBlogs front page, I suspect that I may be well out of my league, especially when it comes to posting frequency. There's just no way I can post that many entries in one day, especially not a day like Thursday.
The Washington Post reports that in the aftermath of yesterday's split decision, some prominent religious right leaders are planning a massive campaign to put Ten Commandments monuments at public
I've made a couple of oblique references to this over the past couple of months, but I have an article in the new issue of Physics World, on experiments using molecules to search for an electric dipole moment of the electron
Wow. That's unbelievable geeky, and also pretty damn funny.
I hate to tell them, but ... However much they rotate, they'll never be cool.
To paraphrase Homer Simpson, no matter how geeky you are, there's always someone who's a million times geekier.
That's so awesome! It seems that at least someone there enjoys what they do.
Also, Scott, Chris: both of you deserve to be hit upside the head for implying that finding humor/fun in something that is *gasp* related to science (what you call "geeky") is somehow bad (i.e., not "cool"). Shame.
Just watching that made me dizzy...