Ragitsu Posted April 16, 2018 Report Share Posted April 16, 2018 http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/54803.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted June 19, 2018 Report Share Posted June 19, 2018 Scientist Are Sharing How Their Work Makes Them Look Like Serial Killers And It’s Hilarious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 19, 2018 Report Share Posted June 19, 2018 Swap out "serial killer" and swap in "plane-bombing terrorist": In his book Most Wanted Particle, particle physicist Jon Butterworth describes carrying a slab of lead tungstate crystal in his luggage from England to CERN in Geneva. Lead tungstate is a scintillator (it sparkles when you send high-energy particles through it), it is transparent with a slight yellowish tinge, and it's about a factor of 4 more dense than glass; there's a bunch of it in the CMS experiment in the Large Hadron Collider. It is also quite opaque to x-rays, and the guys with x-ray machines at the security station at the airport were quite puzzled when they come across a block of something that blocks the x-rays but looks otherwise like glass. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 8, 2018 Report Share Posted July 8, 2018 Diffusion kurtosis imaging of the liver at 3 Tesla: in vivo comparison to standard diffusion-weighted imaging. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 13, 2018 Report Share Posted July 13, 2018 In the "things you can use in your game" department.... Unopened black granite sarcophagus found in Egypt Of course, nothing bad could ever come from this. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 12, 2018 Report Share Posted August 12, 2018 The Prime Pages Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 15, 2018 Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 Animal House plus 40 years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted September 11, 2018 Report Share Posted September 11, 2018 Tolkien's artwork to be made into tapestries at Aubusson, France: https://www.cite-tapisserie.fr/en/node/758/ Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 18, 2018 Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 Alternatives to resting bitch face Includes a link to a follow-on page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Greywind Posted September 18, 2018 Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 Cancer and Lucius 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted September 21, 2018 Report Share Posted September 21, 2018 https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-mister-rogers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 27, 2018 Report Share Posted September 27, 2018 Jet Propulsion Laboratory's "Small Body Database Browser" Enter in the identifier for some asteroid, comet, trans-neptunian object, ..., and it'll barf up some data. Try "1P/Halley" to get Halley's Comet; or more or less any integer of five digits or less to get one of the "numbered" asteroids (these have good orbital determinations). Or grab something out of Wikipedia (in particular I recommend some things off the list of "near Earth objects"). You'll initially get a wall of numbers, but then click on the "Orbit Diagram" link and you have some interactive graphics you can play with. N.B.: you'll need a mouse with a scroll wheel to zoom your view in and out (For RSI reasons, I have an old trackball mouse on my office box, which lacks a scroll wheel -- first time I've missed having one). And if you are looking at a NEO, then click open the "Show close approach data" link too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 1, 2018 Report Share Posted October 1, 2018 Not even when it comes from Nature will I click on an emailed link that says How to get lucky. But there it is anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 11, 2018 Report Share Posted October 11, 2018 Band in search of name, with song titles "Chaos" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 14, 2018 Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 Great Archived Threads, part 1 Rocket-propelled Chainsaw thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 14, 2018 Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 Great Archived Threads, #2: AlHazred's great, great Populate a Creepy Hotel thread Lucius and tkdguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted October 14, 2018 Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 5 hours ago, Cancer said: Great Archived Threads, #2: AlHazred's great, great Populate a Creepy Hotel thread That was a great thread. I wish it were still active. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted October 17, 2018 Report Share Posted October 17, 2018 10 Top Astronomers of the Ancient World Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 26, 2018 Report Share Posted November 26, 2018 The physics of wok tossing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted November 28, 2018 Report Share Posted November 28, 2018 10 of the best words in the world that don't translate into English Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted December 25, 2018 Report Share Posted December 25, 2018 Here's a Christmas battle report for you: Battle of 6 Armies Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 28, 2018 Report Share Posted December 28, 2018 Why are there so many rats in Seattle Includes a brief how-much-do-you-know-about-rats quiz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 3, 2019 Report Share Posted January 3, 2019 Victorian science fiction airship model Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 16, 2019 Report Share Posted January 16, 2019 More than you wanted to know about text messaging Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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