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Somma’s Stochastic Revised

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

My friend BMF photoshopped up the following version of my Somma’s Stochastic Eponym following a comment thread about what symbol best represents science, since the atom caused some confusion:

Somma's Stochastic Revised

Somma’s Stochastic Revised

Bet you wish you had added me to your Facebook friends list now Ira Flatow?!?!

Scientists everywhere are going to see this and shake their heads disapprovingly. : )

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Science Etcetera Venusday, 20080115

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Brains Lab

Brains Lab

  • I don’t know how real this “Abandoned Soviet Laboratory” is, but I’ve got heart bubbles of envy for it. I’m totally going to decorate my house like this. “Chick-Magnet.”
  • We can thank Columbus for bringing us Syphilis from New World.
  • Tyranosaurus Rexes had teen sex!!! Quick! Somebody alert the Religious Right! We need new warning stickers for Science Books!
  • That guy with the prosthetic legs who runs really fast and stuff has been Banned from the Olympics, because his prosthetics give him an unfair advantage. First they ban the roids, now they’re banning the borgs. Why not ban the Nikes too while their at it??? Oh, yeah… Advertising revenue.
  • The Spacecraft Messenger Flew by Mercury, we’ll soon have some fantastic data flowing in about this overly baked planet nearest the sun.
  • Greenpeace has kicked some Japanese Whaler butt, and sent them home crying.
  • And now to an antidote to the disturbing image opening this post, Nature blog has a nice round up of Songs About Science:



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