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[OmCheeto]

What the...?

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=723044
Can mentors manipulate polls? Phrenology has a thousand votes...

Nope

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=646545

ps. I was going to vote for philately, as Feynman and I are both philatelists, QED.

pps. Why do people put the abbreviation for Queen's English Dictionary at the end of something that is obvious?

 

[Enigman]

Nope

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=646545

ps. I was going to vote for philately, as Feynman and I are both philatelists, QED.

pps. Why do people put the abbreviation for Queen's English Dictionary at the end of something that is obvious?

104,518 yes votes. ahahahaha

... Aliens.

Who then? Ah yes...

 

[pyzicslolito]

Who then? Ah yes...

Sooooooo cute. Buy him a hat please. .
But is he Jewish ?

 

[Enigman]

Sooooooo cute. Buy him a hat please. .
But is he Jewish ?

Actually...

(British TV show Doctor Who)

 

[Evo]

The dog is obviously a tenured professor, do they wear hats anymore? Oh wait, my depth perception is off, what is that red thing on his head?

 

[Enigman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fez_(hat )

 

[Evo]

Oh, the dog is Dr Who.

 

[dkotschessaa]

Oh, the dog is Dr Who.

It is so obvious what a Dr. Who fan you aren't!

 

[Evo]

It is so obvious what a Dr. Who fan you aren't!

I have never watched an entire episode, I don't get it.

 

[OmCheeto]

I have never watched an entire episode, I don't get it.

I haven't watched an episode since the 70's.
This is the only Doctor I've known:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcjIzo3FGvo​

[Edit] Though it would appear I was not too much of a fan. I've seen scores of image references to the Daleks in the last year, and have no recollection of them.

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/NewDalek1.jpg​

 

[AlephZero]

I have never watched an entire episode, I don't get it.

It's become an institution, like the BBC radio soap opera "The Archers" (started in 1950, and fairly incomprehensible unless you have listened to every daily episode for the last 63 years).

In its early days Dr Who was at the cutting edge of TV special visual effects, electronic music, etc. Now it's more fuelled by nostalgia IMO.

 

[lisab]

Oh, the dog is Dr Who.

Dog-ter Who, actually.

 

[OmCheeto]

Ode to Joy!

http://www.scientificamerican.com/a...-wonders-of-the-world-at-burning-man-festival

 

[dkotschessaa]

It's become an institution, like the BBC radio soap opera "The Archers" (started in 1950, and fairly incomprehensible unless you have listened to every daily episode for the last 63 years).

In its early days Dr Who was at the cutting edge of TV special visual effects, electronic music, etc. Now it's more fuelled by nostalgia IMO.

Nostaliga-wise, they have done an excellent job of preserving the old-school, somewhat B-movie grade cheesiness of the original show and all villains (like the Daleks). But at the same time they managed to update it, and make it more dramatic, without ruining it like an american reboot would do. It's got a kind of "self aware of it's own camp" kind of feel, and is very brave.

However, many of the people watching it now, especially Americans, have never seen the older version. It just happens to be really well done. Well directed, excellent drama, very imaginative stories, especially compared to all the craptastical stuff coming out of the US right now. Most of the people I know that watch it are too young to have seen the original.

-Dave K

 

[Enigman]

What the...?

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=723044
Can mentors manipulate polls? Phrenology has a thousand votes...

And it gets better and better...

I have never watched an entire episode, I don't get it.

That's sort of the point...

 

[Evo]

Dog-ter Who, actually.

 

[DennisN]

I liked this little presentation of superconductors/maglev train:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi7tN_B1BT8

I'll ask my mom to buy me a maglev train for Christmas. MOMMY, GIMME, GIMME! WANNA PLAY!

 

[JorisL]

Lol, I think I'm going to like this course on symmetries in quantum mechanics.
On a previous exam this was a question

Three Helium-3 atoms walk into a bar. All energy levels of this trio are doubly degenerate.
What can be done to undo their doubling?

At least he attempted a joke which sometimes is better than having a good joke.

 

[zoobyshoe]

At least he attempted a joke which sometimes is better than having a good joke.

This is humor crackpotism, and you should be banned.

 

[Enigman]

I was searching something on google and the string started as - "why isn't..." just as I finished typing that the first suggestion chrome throws at me is Why isn't Bleach 547 out...Manga otakus are taking over the world.
Buahaha.
<the suggestion after "why" was why so serious...we still need to beat the DC fanboys>

 

[drizzle]

This is humor crackpotism, and you should be banned.

Lol!

 

[lisab]

Is today really only Tuesday ?

It appears I have 2*23*103 days left. Sigh.

Om, will you hire me as soon as you can?

 

[OmCheeto]

Is today really only Tuesday ?

It appears I have 2*23*103 days left. Sigh.

Om, will you hire me as soon as you can?

Ok. As long as you can explain why Nickel rusts, and Platinum doesn't. Then you get an extra five hundred million dollars bonus. Otherwise... You're FIRED!

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I read today that they are still arguing about the lowest electron energy state of Nickel...
Scientists...
They remind me of me.
Always scratching their heads...

 

[turbo]

Ok. As long as you can explain why Nickel rusts, and Platinum doesn't. Then you get an extra five hundred million dollars bonus. Otherwise... You're FIRED!

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I read today that they are still arguing about the lowest electron energy state of Nickel...
Scientists...
They remind me of me.
Always scratching their heads...

Go for it, LisaB! You can do it.

 

[Borek]

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I read today that they are still arguing about the lowest electron energy state of Nickel...

Only some nitpickers, bored with counting angels on a pinhead.

 

[Enigman]

I am running out of combinations for my tea...
Earl Grey, honey and coffee for now.
(mmm...hope its not lethal, in case it is- Badbye everyone- what does bye mean anyway? google google google mmm...God be with you...in that case Fare thee unwell.)

 

[Evo]

Just make sure that you are using a paper filter for your coffee. There is a substance in coffee called cafestol that raises LDL cholesterol, but it has been found that filtering through paper removes it.

Cafestol, a compound found in coffee, elevates cholesterol by hijacking a receptor in an intestinal pathway critical to its regulation, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears in the July issue of the journal Molecular Endocrinology.
In fact, cafestol is the most potent dietary cholesterol-elevating agent known, said Dr. David Moore, professor of molecular and cellular biology at BCM, and Dr. Marie-Louise Ricketts, a postdoctoral student and first author of the report. Cafetiere, or French press coffee, boiled Scandinavian brew and espresso contain the highest levels of the compound, which is removed by paper filters used in most other brewing processes.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070614162223.htm

9. Is drinking coffee made with a paper filter healthier than drinking boiled coffee or other types of coffee?

Coffee contains a substance called cafestol that is a potent stimulator of LDL cholesterol levels. Cafestolis found in the oily fraction of coffee, and when you brew coffee with a paper filter, the cafestol gets left behind in the filter. Other methods of coffee preparation, such as the boiled coffee common in Scandinavian countries, French press coffee, or Turkish coffee, are much higher in cafestol. So for people who have high cholesterol levels or who want to prevent having high cholesterol levels, it is better to choose paper filtered coffee or instant coffee, since they have much lower levels of cafestol than boiled or French press coffee.Espresso is somewhere in the middle; it has less cafestol than boiled or French press coffee, but more than paper filtered coffee.

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/coffee/

 

[Enigman]

You just reminded me of this quote:
“Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists. ”
-Dame Agatha Christie

Girls are crazzzzzy...

 

[Evo]

You just reminded me of this quote:
“Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists. ”
-Dame Agatha Christie

Girls are crazzzzzy...

I only go for very nice guys, and I know lisab feels the same. IMO, something is wrong with the self esteem of women that go for creeps.

 

[collinsmark]

Just make sure that you are using a paper filter for your coffee. There is a substance in coffee called cafestol that raises LDL cholesterol, but it has been found that filtering through paper removes it.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070614162223.htmhttp://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/coffee/

Oh, no! I'm doomed.

(I drink several espresso based coffees every day [typically around 5 or 6 doppio espressos per day]. This is horrible news. )