Owen: “Make yourself useful, sweetheart, pass us the big chisel from the toolbox?” Gwen: “Not sweetheart, Gwen. One syllable, sure you can manage it.” Owen: “Not sweetcheeks? Freckles? New girl?” Gwen: “It’s a shame your tool’s not big enough for the job. Darling.” This week’s Danger Gal Friday profile is of Gwen Cooper from the [...]
Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Higgs Boson Here. The rap video above comes via Popular Mechanics, whose article shows off “Kate McAlpine and crew, who took to the tunnels under CERN to bring us the most entertaining explanation of physics we’ve seen since Schoolhouse Rock.” Someone’s got to save our skins! The 9 Most Badass [...]
(#39) 1. And yet it moves. The idea of relativity was discovered, not invented, by Galileo Galilei in 1639 “when he showed that a falling object behaves the same way on a moving ship as it does in a motionless building.” 2. There’s nothing relative about it. Einstein never used the term “relativity,” instead preferring [...]
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