And then you also have the people who think since the Earth is a gift from God, He won’t allow anything horrible to befall it and turn a blind eye to to current environmental issues.
Hooray for our legal system!
Judge Performs Own Experiments & Rules That Pizza Is, in Fact, a Solid
Thank goodness. Plasma pizza haunts my dreams.
(via jtotheizzoe)
Hipsters do science
Hilarious day on Twitter. First, go check out the #hipsterscience hashtag.
Next, make sure you read through The Hipster Scientist’s tweets. Funny as hell!
“My favorite beer is Pabst Blueshift Ribbon” - The Hipster Scientist
(Source: jtotheizzoe)
Allow me to go on for a minute about Richard P. Feynman, one of the greatest people ever probably. Other than making important contributions to quantum field theory and particle physics, winning the Nobel prize in physics for his work in quantum electrodynamics, introducing the concept of nanotechnology and doing work on a little venture known as the Manhattan Project, Feynman was a professor at Caltech, a populariser of science and an all-around awesome person. His famous lectures on physics were turned into a textbook for Caltech students and thanks to the internet you can watch them for free online. You can also read most of his autobiographical book Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! for free on Google Books.
“Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.” - RF
"Wherever eels are born, they’re relentless in their effort to return to their oceanic womb. I can tell you this from personal experience because I’ve tried to keep them in a home aquarium. The morning after the first night of my attempt, I found eels slithering around the floor of my kitchen and living room. After securing a metal screen over the tank with heavy stones, I was able to contain them, but soon they were rubbing themselves raw against the screen. Then one died trying to escape via the filter outflow. When I screen the outflow, they banged their heads against the glass until they had what appeared to be seizures and died. That’s when I stopped trying to keep eels."
— Eels, by James Prosek
