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After a comment suggesting that a Science Film festival be held to combat a certain idiotic movie, He of Uncertain Principles agreed, and then the powers that be at scienceblogs decided to hold a poll on the Best Science Movies. And the four choices are...."Contact", "Gattaca", "An Inconvenient…
An 18 Billion Mile Journey is almost complete! : Starts With A Bang In honor of the upcoming completion of Neptune's first full orbit since its discovery, a discussion of how it was found. (tags: science astronomy planets blogs starts-with-bang) Fixing a Hole: The Beatles' Imaginary Post-1970…
Spins spotted in room-temperature silicon - physicsworld.com "Physicists in the Netherlands are the first to show that spin-polarized electrons can be injected into silicon at room temperature. The team injected the electrons into both p-type and n-type silicon and measured how long the…
Christopher Guest | Film | Gateways To Geekery | The A.V. Club "No comic filmmaker is more intimately associated with improvisation than Christopher Guest, an alum of The National Lampoon Radio Hour and Saturday Night Live who made his name as a filmmaker co-writing, directing, and co-starring in…

Awesome movie. I still love to quote it:

Do you mind if I name my first child after you? "Dipshit Knight" has a nice ring to it.

By s kirkton (not verified) on 07 Sep 2008 #permalink

"It is possible to synthesize excited bromide in an argon matrix! Yes, it's an excimer, frozen in its excited state ... As soon as we apply a field, we couple to a state that is radiatively coupled to the ground state."

Ron Avitzur, Pacific Tech