https://scienceblogs.com/ en https://scienceblogs.com/observations/2009/01/12/ways-to-pass-time <span>Ways to pass time...</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p><a href="http://www.sporcle.com"><img src="http://www.sporcle.com/images/LogoNoBorder.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Thanks to <a href="http://www.ohfortheloveofscience.com/">Allie</a>, I've found a bunch of new ways to waste time, all thanks to <a href="http://www.sporcle.com">Sporcle</a>.</p> <p>Can you remember <a href="http://www.sporcle.com/games/aminoacids.php">all 20 of the standard amino acids</a>? (yup. Got all 20. Cheating, though, that they give you the 3-letter and 1-letter abbreviations. Makes it too easy... though spelling them right is hard!)</p> <p>How about <a href="http://www.sporcle.com/games/elements.php">the entire periodic table</a>? (67. Eh.)</p> <p><a href="http://www.sporcle.com/games/geologicaltime.php">The Geological Timescale</a>? (I'm sorry Prof. Brooks! I totally failed this one... I am not worthy...)</p> <p>Or maybe, if you're not as scientifically inclined, you want to try <a href="http://www.sporcle.com/games/nflteams.php">The 32 NFL teams</a> or <a href="http://www.sporcle.com/games/presidents.php">the U.S. Presidents</a>. Does it say something bad about me that I can name all 32 NFL teams and not even 1/2 of the US presidents?</p> <p>Anyhow, they got a lot of them, and they're all wonderful, time-wasting fun.</p> </div> <span><a title="View user profile." href="/author/cwilcox" lang="" about="/author/cwilcox" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">cwilcox</a></span> <span>Sun, 01/11/2009 - 22:00</span> <div class="field field--name-field-blog-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field--label">Tags</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/tag/nerd" hreflang="en">nerd</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/tag/sporicle" hreflang="en">Sporicle</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/tag/time-wasters" hreflang="en">Time-Wasters</a></div> </div> </div> <section> </section> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="comment-forbidden"><a href="/user/login?destination=/observations/2009/01/12/ways-to-pass-time%23comment-form">Log in</a> to post comments</li></ul> Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:00:00 +0000 cwilcox 141704 at https://scienceblogs.com