Over at metadatta, Sujit has video of Jim Carrey and Conan O'Brien talking about experimental physics.
(There are a bunch of more serious things that I really ought to be posting-- I owe Dave an answer to his questions about X-Ray lasers, for example-- but there's an ice storm, I have a class to teach and an NSF progress report to write, and my brain appears to have turned to cheese, so you're getting fluff this morning. Maybe later I'll have something to say about science.)
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