Wellington Grey, a high school physics teacher, has an entertaining but deeply depressing rant about the state of physics education in the UK today.
He even supplies an alternative exam, usable if things carry on the way they’re going:
The wave equation is Ʋ = ƒ λ
How does that make you feel?
What do you think [...]
Kimura beverages comes up with the perfect summertime drink (well, for this abortive attempt at a summer, anyway): Curry and Wasabi flavour sodas.
Given that the Cerne Abbas giant was mostly likely a piss-take on some neighbouring settlement in the first place, I thought the whole Giant Homer Simpson thing was pretty funny.
Then Ann Bryn-Evans - a district manager for The Pagan Federation for fuck’s sake - piped up with this:
“I’m amazed they got permission to do something [...]
I think the opening sentence in this article is the best thing I’ve ever read on the BBC:
British forces have denied rumours that they released a plague of ferocious badgers into the Iraqi city of Basra.
Word spread among the populace that UK troops had introduced strange man-eating, bear-like beasts into the area to sow panic.
But [...]
You just don’t get the same class of pioneer scientist these days. (Which is maybe for the best…)
Scienceblogs.com - 05/06/2007
Voronoff’s hypothesis was this: hormones, like testosterone produced by the testes, would reverse aging by a process he called “rejuvenation.” One of his first experiments used himself as a test subject. He injected ground up dog [...]
The world clock shows the time according to the number of births, deaths by various causes, population growth, prison growth, divorces, abortions, temperature of the Earth, species extinct, forest lost, and barrels of oil produced.
If I have to go back to work tomorrow morning, then no one else is allowed to think happy thoughts either…
A survey by Carphone Warehouse shows that 1 in 3 people in Britain wouldn’t give up their mobile phone for £1 million. And people wonder why I want to go and live on top of a mountain with a team of attack-haggis to keep ramblers away?
Some more fun facts from the survey:
On average people send [...]