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apalazzo | January 12, 2007
This year is a special one for this week's mystery campuses (campi?)
Leave your answers in the comment section.
apalazzo | January 5, 2007OK this week there is a theme ...
(Yeah I know, campus #3 has it's name in big white letters on a rooftop ... but it looked great on Google Earth, so I included it anyway ... and it seems like campus #3 has one of these too! Is there an infestation of such organisms in this area?)
As usual, leave all your answers in the comment section. (or email me)
apalazzo | December 29, 2006Let's end this year with a bang!
Here is this week's mystery campus:
hint: It's getting cold.
As usual, leave your answers in the comment section.
(although I screwed up last time, don't worry, Willie is warm!)
apalazzo | December 15, 2006Here's one for you:
Last week's hint was fatal, this week's hint: deadly particle.
Leave your answers in the comment section, or if you don't want to ruin it for others, email me and I'll post all your answers over the weekend.
(And no, the forest on the left is not home to Willie the Wildcat.)
apalazzo | December 8, 2006It's that time again.
Here is this week's mystery campus:
hint: fatal element.
As usual, leave your answers in the comment section.
apalazzo | December 1, 2006Here is an easy one.
hint: Motor Wars.
We'll try something different this week. Now considering the readership of this blog I'm sure that many of you know this place very well. So if you know what it is, leave a clue, hint, or embarrassing incident that occurred there (in the comment section of course.) Good luck.
apalazzo | November 24, 2006So another week has flown by.
Here is today's mystery campus:
hint: Turkey, what a fine bird.
Leave your answers in the comments section.
apalazzo | November 17, 2006To quote an ex-Canadian (Jim Carey):
I've [been fixated on] the number 23 for years. It's everywhere. Each parent passes on 23 chromosomes; Earth's axis is at a 23° angle. Psalm 23 is my mantra...
Now he's in a movie called The Number 23 (it's plot sounds almost like Darren Aronofsky's Pi). Here is something else that I read this week in Time Magazine about the movie:
Life has been known to imitate art, as it did on the set of the psychological thriller The Number 23. JIM CARREY plays a man who sees No. 23 everywhere after he starts reading a murder mystery with a plot alarmingly parallel to…
apalazzo | November 10, 2006It's that time of the week. Let's try something a bit more challenging. Here is today's mystery campus:
Hint: How proteins get into these organelles.
Leave your answers in the comment section.
apalazzo | November 3, 2006I guess last week's mystery campus was way too easy, congrats to Arrowsmith for his two correct answers. This week will be a little harder.
So here is this week's "campus":
hint: Great place to have a trip, I got more done here than ever before!
Email me or leave your answers in the comment section.
apalazzo | October 27, 2006Yes, it's back. And for the 20th edition we have a nice pair for you.
So here THEY are:
X: What could it be?
x: I'm sure we'll find it, we just need to focus.
X: You know, I've never seen you in a modest mood.
x: Look we need to go over the evidence. There are others who are hot on the topic.
X: Yes but fortunately their first guess was a bit off.
x: To recapitulate, there was that first interesting finding here.
X: And now we have the diffraction data from our collaborators.
x: Yes and don't forget about the ratios.
X: All very suggestive. I say we head down to the pub and talk about in…
apalazzo | October 13, 2006In keeping up with "numbers week" here is today's mystery campus:
hints:
85, 93, 94, 96, 97, 98, (99), (100), 101, 102, 103, controversy for 104-106, 116 and 118 (the last one being retracted)
This should be an easy one. Leave your answers in the comments (or email me).
(PS Michael, this one's for you!)
apalazzo | October 6, 2006
This week lo tendremos en espanol.
(without the accents - for some reason the default ScienceBlog font screws them up!)
Aqui esta su pista:
La institucion mas grande de esta region.
Si usted sabe la respuesta, digame.
apalazzo | September 29, 2006An easy one this week:
Click here to listen to your hint.
What could it be? Leave your answers in the comment section. I'll confirm any correct answer over the weekend.
apalazzo | September 22, 2006Well I'm back in NYC, visiting old friends and my thesis advisor. Since I'm writing about my intellectual roots, here is this week's "mystery campus":
hint:
The unexamined life is not worth living.
This one should go quickly! Place your answers in the comments.
(PS Thanks Claudia for letting me use your laptop.)
apalazzo | September 15, 2006OK here is this week's mystery campus:
Hint:
Looking for the nugget in gold.
If you know the place or the event, leave a comment.
apalazzo | September 8, 2006That time again.
Here is this week's mystery campus (and it's not Northwestern!):
Hint:
Neutron blast!
Leave your answers in the comments.
apalazzo | September 1, 2006Ready for this week's mystery campus?
What could it be? A space ship?
Some things heard from it's interiors:
"It's not protein, it's some other filtrate that transforms them."
"Let's just fire a bunch of electrons at the cell and see what we get."
"The proteins must contain a signal."
Where is this? Who are these people? What are they talking about?
Leave your proposals in the comment section.
apalazzo | August 25, 2006This week it's an easy one.
Click here for a blowup.
Hint:
The debate stems from work done here.
What the hell am I talking about? You tell me.
(P.S. Ignore the arrow.)
apalazzo | August 18, 2006In celebration of the 11th edition (and because I enjoy presenting my hints in doublets) I present this week's mystery campus as a dialogue. Have fun:
X: [thinking to himself] Going out during evenings ... lovely.
I: Hello X, what a coincidence, I came out for a nice brisk stroll and I saw you passing by.
X: Funny, you tell me the same story everyday.
I: So will they solve it?
X: There are clues.
I: Yes the clues ... they must find the unifying idea.
X: But there may not be enough.
I: Clues?
X: You can never have too many clues.
I: Not this again.
X: Formally, to represent reality within a…