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Category: Silliness
Alternate Mascots
Some guys on a mailing list that I’m on were talking about a game they were playing during breaks in the NCAA tournamnent last weekend, trying to come up with appropriate alternate mascots for colleges and universities. The idea is to pick mascot names that fit with the school name to make an amusing phrase.… Continue reading Alternate Mascots
How Many Philosophers to Change a Light Bulb?
Obviously, it depends on the type of philosopher: Empiricist: We can’t know how to change a lightbulb, but we can make lists of how big it is, the wattage, the thickness of the glass, the composition of the filiment… Skeptic: We can’t know if we’re changing the lightbulb. We can’t know if changing the lightbulb… Continue reading How Many Philosophers to Change a Light Bulb?
Spring Showdown: This is ScienceCenter
Muiscal intro, fancy CGI effects Anchor 1 (voiceover): The Showdown begins! Four regions, eight games each, sixty-four top science concepts in a fight to the finish. Anchor 2: In today’s Orbit region action, two titans of Newtonian physics collide– will Universal Gravitation maintain its orbit, or will the upstart Second Law change its momentum for… Continue reading Spring Showdown: This is ScienceCenter
A Question of Ethics
Is this video a deplorable example of cruelty to animals, or an entertaining way of dealing with bushy-tailed vermin? (It’s unquestionably the work of somebody with way too much free time. It’s much simpler to just let the dog out back, and let her chase the squirrels out of the yard. Though she might enjoy… Continue reading A Question of Ethics
Science Showdown: Orbit Region First Round
Announcing the first round games of the Orbit Region of the 2007 Science Showdown: These games match central physics concepts against one another, in a bid to determine the greatest physics idea, which will eventually face and humiliate ideas from other fields of science. I’ll be announcing the winners on Friday, but ehre’s your chance… Continue reading Science Showdown: Orbit Region First Round
A Bracket for Everything, and Everything In Its Bracket
Posting has been basketball-heavy of late because, well, there isn’t much else going on that I find all that interesting at the moment. More importantly, though, it’s the Season of the Bracket… I’m not the only one affected, of course, though many people who don’t care about hoops have to find other outlets for the… Continue reading A Bracket for Everything, and Everything In Its Bracket
The Crucial Question of Our Time
Funny. But only once.
Federal Agency or Basketball Conference?
This idea is stolen from Colin Cowherd, a pinhead on ESPN Radio, but even a blind pig finds the occasional acorn. I’m going to list a bunch of abbreviations below, and you tell me which are the initials of conferences in Division I basketball, which are agencies of the US Government, and which could be… Continue reading Federal Agency or Basketball Conference?
Max, You Know Nothing About Quantum Physics
Over at metadatta, Sujit has video of Jim Carrey and Conan O’Brien talking about experimental physics. (There are a bunch of more serious things that I really ought to be posting– I owe Dave an answer to his questions about X-Ray lasers, for example– but there’s an ice storm, I have a class to teach… Continue reading Max, You Know Nothing About Quantum Physics