O, teh interwebz!

An interesting study finds that in split-second decisions, referees are more likely to favor athletes in red (over blue).  So, even without the home-field advantage, should we expect China to clean up at the Games this summer?

Wow, the odds of catching this must be ridiculously tiny.  Nevertheless, how sweet is this??

A planet-wide survey of some 30,000,000 instant messages (via Microsoft) sent by 240,000,000 people have confirmed that, in fact, Kevin Bacon is God. really is separated by six degrees.  Moreover, anyone is approximately six degrees away!

As a physicist, I think this is freakin awesome.  Even as a physics graduate student, I still might have a career at Google waiting for me in a few years!

Best quote: 

“…one little letter had to represent an important word, but it was too wimpy…”

While I’m all for keeping an open mind about scientific theories, I have to draw the line somewhere.  ”Flat-earthers” earn no respect from me.  They’re just silly.

Forget cats, iguanas, pigs, or whatever else you might want for a pet.  I want this.

I’m not sure how, or where, they would do this.  But, apparently, 125,000 Western lowland gorillas were hiding from us… until now.  While it’s cool that there’s so many more of them than we thought, I’m sure they would have preferred being undiscovered.

This is probably one of the most significant space science discoveries in all of recorded history.

I can’t think of any conceivable way to wake up that would be better than having the smell of (reasonably) fresh bacon wafting into your nose….

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Yeah, infinity.  I went there.  This is probably the highlight of July for me.

Forget about health care, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the economy / mortgage crisis, and all other insignificant political talking points.  The only question that really matters: who do you want to go up against the aliens?

Update: I just noticed this is the 100th post on this blog!  Woo centennial!

Unfortunately, blindness is not necessarily going to keep these moronic genes out of humanity’s pool.

Chances are, any bear you meet in the wild will be much more… moody… than good ol’ Yogi.  So, here are some tips!

Where’s Michael Scott when you need him?  Someone’s gotta be there to pick up on a line like that.  Anyway, it really was a lot of meat… and charcoal.

An ambitious attempt to make an analogy between your progression through both the worlds of physics and women.  Could have been done a little better, but I admire the effort!

Well I suppose middle school geography would have been a little more annoying (memorizing an extra state, that is).  But, it still would have been cool to have a ‘rebel state‘ north of me, now.

On the one hand, it’s great that the dude was found innocent.  But, on the other, how is this guy going to walk around town after all this?

It’s true that we, as scientists, have held as tightly to the Copernican Principle as a five year old to their Legos (do kids still play with Legos these days?).  Though admittedly, there is a lot of scientific evidence that backs it up (see any text on cosmology), the questions should be asked:  What if we are special in the universe?