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The origin of everybody's favorite Muppet earworm, via the AV Club.
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The Muppet version. You can thank me later.
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Valdosta State student expelled for protesting a parking garage. Don't mess with parking in academia.
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"[T]he inaugural National Collegiate Athletic Association-sponsored scholarly colloquium opened Thursday with a medley of presentations from professors who addressed the dearth of academic research on college sports and the often tenuous relationship betw
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A mixture of lithium and rubidium, cooled so that both elements are in a degenerate Fermi state.
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Nailing down one of the biggest obstacles to ion trap quantum computing.
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Coherent collective effects in a gas of ultracold atoms excited to high Rydberg states.
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At least as accurate as anything you'll see on CNN.
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I love "Mahna Mahna," especially so for the irony that it was earlier used on the soundtrack of a Swedish "documentary" (wink, wink) film "Svezia, Inferno E Paradiso" before being sung by some muppets.
The 2007, 1337-speak version of Mahna Mahna:
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Chad, are you going to blog a bit on some of these topics? I, for one, have no idea what the abstract for that Rydberg paper even says.