Daily Archives: February 5, 2010
Why the bad guys are always bad shots….
…. because they always shoot first! And it turns out that reaction is faster than action, so the Marshall can shoot the Varmint Bad Guy, and the Sar Wars Storm Troopers didn’t have a chance.
[Niels] Bohr was seemingly unhappy with the Tinseltown explanation that the good guy, who never shoots first, always wins. Legend has it that he procured two toy pistols and enlisted the aid of fellow physicist George Gamow. In a series of duels, Bohr never drew first but won every time. The physicist suggested that the brain responded to danger faster than it carried out a deliberate intention.
The truth untold
There is a certain religion in which a man utters the same prayer every morning on waking. He says “Thank you god, that I was not born a woman.”
That sounds really bad. But then you read this and it all makes sense: What pregnant women won’t tell you. Ever.
Autism, Narcotics and Lost Language
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: No USD Faxes!!!
Be aware: The USPTO will no longer accept USD (up-side-down) faxes. You are now informed.
What happens when you take away our blogs
… things can get a little tense …
Continue reading What happens when you take away our blogs
LHC schedule change
The world’s highest energy atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), will run at half its maximum energy through 2011 and likely not at all in 2012. Officials at the European particle physics laboratory, CERN, had previously planned to run the gargantuan accelerator at 70% of maximum energy this year.
The change raises hopes at the LHC’s lower-energy rival, the Tevatron Collider at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, of being extended through 2012 instead of being shut down next year.