February 2011
56 posts
January 2011
150 posts
Kickstarter - The TRANSMETROPOLITAN art book →
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I pledged and I can’t wait! Pirates Press is the best, so says my sweet business cards.
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“The surface of this land… is made by nature to decay… the heights of our land are thus levelled with the shores; our fertile plains are formed from the ruins of the mountains.”
—Theory of the Earth by James Hutton published 1788
15 Science Factlets You Don’t Know →
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I’m not trying to brag BUT the article started it by presuming what I didn’t know, so I’ll just throw it out there that I knew 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 and 15. What about you?
Trailer Trash Followup: Hopkin’s beliefs & The Rite →
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The Rite hits theaters today and if you listened to episode 68 – Math of God you’ll remember our discussion was mostly about the possible endings the movie my take. We generally decided it would opt…
REVIEW: Evolution - The Story of Life on Earth →
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Put my words in your brain!
Word I learned today: gynoid
A female version of android, so essentially a female robot. Or a robot modeled after a female form. This blew my mind, not sure why, I should have known. But that’s what makes learning fun!
Source: Reading The Science of Kissing by Sheril Kirshenbaum
Bakon Vodka →
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“Pure. Refreshing. Bacon.”
One of those words does not fit. And I can’t remember the last time I bothered with vodka.
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This is Jason, creator of Ninjasaur. Thanks for the link!
So...you live in Nashville? I also live in Nashville. And you seem to be a science nerd that's into time travel. I just so happen to have theories about time travel. Maybe I'll share them with you someday...
Jason Horn
Hi Jason!
Wow, that is some serious customer service coming by to thank me personally for the link. However, I am no mere science nerd, I am a scientist! I’m in grad school at Vandy so I’m pretty new to town. I’m always down to go grab a beer and chat with cool comics people so hit me up with a DM when you have a free evening.
Best,
Ryan
Want to actually help science? Now you can!
Cross-posting this from the Paleocave blog to help out my buddy Patrick.
Help me Paleoposse, you’re my only hope.
I’m working on a project that will match changes in human hair chemistry to the region that the hair was grown in. I need to look at hair from lots of different regions in order to do this well. That’s where you come in.
If you want to help, it’s pretty easy…
1) Get a Ziplock bag (quart size or even smaller is fine).
2) Go to your local barbershop or hair salon.
3) Ask them if you can have some of the hair they swept up that day (tell them it’s for SCIENCE!).
4) Put the hair in the Ziplock bag (1/3 full is plenty).
5) Write down the date you did this and the address of the place you got the hair from.
6) Mail it to me…
Patrick Wheatley
Center for Isotope Geochemistry
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
1 Cyclotron Rd. MS 70A-4418
Berkeley CA, 94720
6) Sit back and await your reward.
I’ll list you in the acknowledgements when I publish the work. I’ll also send you a Science… sort of prize or two (so make sure you give me your address when you send me the hair sample). If I get enough responses I’ll blog about some of the results before the paper comes out.
If you’ve got questions, email me patrick[at]sciencesortof.com
Thanks for being a soldier for Science… sort of,
Patrick
Bird gives bird: One-fingered dino discovered! →
paleocave.sciencesortof.com
So it’s not evolutionarily speaking a bird… yet. BUT I COULDN’T RESIST! If you listen to the show you know I have a dream of being given the finger by a bird (see hoatzin) and not we’re one step…
I'm not the only one...
Who contributes to the awesome Paleocave Blog (the official blog of the podcast Science… sort of!). This tumblr only aggregates posts I write for the Paleocave but there are other great contributors too! Like Jacob! Who just wrote a piece on finding a missing ski using nothing but science and moonshine!
Episode 70 – Episode V: Martian Mesozoic Mayhem →
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This week on the podcast…
00:00:00 – The Paleopals are here sipping liquids from all over the place. Sustainable? No. Delicious? You bet! Ignore your carbon footprint and uncork…
FACT: Gorillas vs. Guerrillas
They are both apes. This is a true fact brought to you by Ryan.
I like how when I go to manually post something from my queue
Glad it’s not just me.
Tumblr asks me if I’m sure I want to post it, and I’m all “Yeah, and you could’ve posted it AN HOUR AND A HALF AGO like you were supposed to.”
YEAH! WHAT SHE SAID.
Love & Science: A Brief Debate
- Me: What's work? It's LOVE, ben. We biologists do it all the time.
- Ben: If there's force over distance... it's work. :-p Physicists do it better.
- Me: I hate you so much right now.
- Ben: HAHAHA. Wooooo. Bestest pun ever.
Saturday Night Spirit: The Rattlesnake Cocktail
Recipe:
Chilled stemmed glass rinsed with absinthe (I used Spanish Obsello)
Then mock shake rye whiskey (2 oz.), lemon juice (3/4 oz.), simple syrup (3/4 oz.) and egg white shaken in a Boston shaker. Then add ice and shook again before straining into the glass. The picture in the book showed 2 drops of Peychaud bitters in the foam so I added those too, but in a delightful ‘S’ shape, cause it’s a snake.
To those unfamiliar with egg white in cocktails they make drinks wonderfully foamy and rich, don’t be intimidated, the alcohol kills any chance of lingering bacteria as well as cooking would.
I use a labeled shot glass for small measurements required for a drink like this, I find it’s less likely to lead to spills than measuring spoons.
My thoughts on the drink:
The picture is of my concoction of the drink, hope it entices.
Much sweeter than I’d thought it would be, the lemon plays with the sweetness like a lemon drop more so than as a distinct flavor (and I’ve since been told I could be adding even more sugar). The absinthe plays at the nose without adding much to the tongue, giving me an expectation that is unfufilled by the drink itself, temping me to return for more. The egg and the whiskey are always a good combo, cutting the harsh edge of the spirit with a pleasant creaminess. At the end of the day this is an interesting variation on the traditional whiskey sour and adds a bit of sazerac zest to this normally sweet treat. The more I sip it the more the absinthe comes through in the aftertaste. Such a nice variation on an old favorite.
I would definitely make this again.
Please enjoy responsibly.
Science Valentines by stephoodle on Etsy →
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Because part of living the sci life is falling in sci love.
A-Z of Awesomeness! →
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I’m so sad tumblr links don’t offer images, that said, you really should click through on this bad boy.
Characters You Didn't Know Were SCIENTISTS! →
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My latest iFanboy article. Definitely a fun one.
Dinosaur Sighting: Dino Brew | Dinosaur Tracking →
blogs.smithsonianmag.com
The sitting President of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Phil Currie brews beer. Why did I not know this?!
Characters You Didn't Know Were SCIENTISTS! →
ifanboy.com
My latest iFanboy article. Definitely a fun one.
Dinosaur Sighting: Dino Brew | Dinosaur Tracking →
blogs.smithsonianmag.com
The sitting President of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Phil Currie brews beer. Why did I not know this?!
Plague Attacks Crickets
I didn’t know if I’d be accredited when I submitted this, so I might as well take credit here, right?
Seemed like the kind of thing you guys would appreciate. Something is killing our crickets, will the vaginas of the world now go hungry?
Plague Attacks Crickets
I didn’t know if I’d be accredited when I submitted this, so I might as well take credit here, right?
Seemed like the kind of thing you guys would appreciate. Something is killing our crickets, will the vaginas of the world now go hungry?
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