Same deal as the last game: Each of the following pairs of words is taken from a pop song, where they are set up to rhyme (many of the phrases don’t really rhyme, but they’re treated as if they do). Your job is to guess the song based on the rhyming pair.
Month: August 2010
Links for 2010-08-26
“Mumble mumble shoulder something”: R.E.M., Guided By Voices, Ghostface, and the pleasures of lyrical ambiguity | Music | The A.V. Club Blog | The A.V. Club “The Stipe of R.E.M.’s early recordings uses words to create abstract compositions. It’s not the only way to approach lyric-writing in rock music, or even the best way. Some […]
The Cromartie Conundrum, the Foreman Solution, and the Chamberlain Estimate
New York Jets cornerback Antonio Cromartie is getting mocked for a clip where he takes some time to name all his children (the clip isn’t as bad as the description makes it sound– he’s slow, but he doesn’t struggle all that badly). Cromartie claims that HBO manipulated the footage to make him look bad. Of […]
Academic Poll: That Time of Year
This one’s pretty self-explanatory: Classes for the new academic year start a week from Monday.survey software You only get to pick one because that’s the way it is. If you need me, I’ll be over here scrambling frantically.
Melting Simulated Insulators
The Joerg Heber post that provided one of the two papers for yesterday’s Hanbury Brown Twiss-travaganza also included a write-up of a new paper in Nature on Mott insulators, which was also written up in Physics World. Most of the experimental details are quite similar to a paper by Markus Greiner’s group I wrote up […]
Links for 2010-08-25
Streets of the optical scientists! | Skulls in the Stars “[While a post-doc in Amsterdam] I would take the bus to the rink from my apartment, and every day would travel down Maxwellstraat and past Lorentzlaan, but it didn’t occur to me until near the end of my time in The Netherlands that these streets […]
Tell Me Something I Don’t Know
I’m unaccountably sleepy today, and I have work to do, which is keeping me from deep, insightful blogging. So I’m going to punt, and throw this open to you all: Leave me a comment telling me something I don’t already know. Well, OK, since I can’t reasonably expect you to be mind-readers, that should be […]
Bunches and Antibunches of Atoms: Hanbury Brown and Twiss Effects in Ultracold Atoms
Two papers in one post this time out. One of these was brought to my attention by Joerg Heber, the other I was reminded of when checking some information for last week’s mathematical post on photons. They fit extremely well together though, and both relate to the photon correlation stuff I was talking about last […]
Links for 2010-08-24
The mismeasure of education « Confused at a higher level “Put simply, it makes just about as much sense to obsess over these numerical rankings as it does to try to numerically rank favorite restaurants, or jazz songs, or single malt scotches, or … you get the point. It is a false quantitative-ness about unquantifiable […]
Who’s the Oldest Science Blogger?
Derek Lowe’s doing a lunch thing at the ACS meeting, and in passing mentions the age of his blog: As the longest-standing chemistry blogger (perhaps the longest standing science blogger, for all I know), I’m glad to have a chance to speak. I was just telling a reader by e-mail that when I started this […]