Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts

Thursday, February 05, 2009

The Great Maple Syrup Mystery!

Unfortunately, not quite weird enough to warrant a book with the above title, which I totally would have bought otherwise. Dammit.

Monday, September 15, 2008

Hadron vs. Hardon

So I was in my elevator the other day, minding my own business and reading tidbit fun facts on the Captivate Network. The Captivate Network is a little television in the elevator that entertains you for the twenty or so seconds it takes to ride an elevator, while insisting that you are a Captive.

On this day, the Captivate Network was telling me about the Large Hardon Collider and how it just began its mission and then I backtrack for a second and re-read it. Hardon Collider? Is that really what it's been called this entire time, I ask myself? No, I'm pretty sure it should be Hadron. And they accidentally wrote Hardon as in hard-on. That is hilarious. I told Chris about it and he agreed.

This is apparently a prevalent problem.

And here.