This is freaking awesome – AMS Batman Spoof
Click picture to watch! If there was any reason not to can the film studies program at UBC, this might be it: a batman parody that…
Read articleUpcoming UBC Talk: Carbon Storage
Wed Sep 17 12:00 PM Venue: Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory, Room 120, 2202 Main Mall Mike Celia, Professor of Civil Engineering, Princeton University Title: Geological Storage…
Read articleGirl Meets LHC, Girls Commits Suicide -or- I’m a little doubtful this is actually true…
UPDATE: Reuters has picked up the story. According to their report: But in deeply religious and superstitious India, fears about the experiment and the minor risks…
Read articleDear United States Government: stop stealing my data.
Today, as part of my departmental monthly newsletter, I received a note about the Department of Homeland Security. If you were unaware, over the past few…
Read articleEver wonder what Charlie Brown’s skeleton looks like?
Thanks to Portland based artist Michael Paulus, we need no longer wonder. Paulus has put together a series of pen and ink drawings depicting what a…
Read articleAwesome Science Abstracts: Astrophysics, meet Usain Bolt.
Oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god (hat tip to Sean at Cosmic Variance). Velocity dispersions in a cluster of stars:…
Read articleSWARM08 – Check it.
SWARM is as it sounds – two frenzied nights of visual and mental stimuli from Vancouver’s visual arts community, it is mixed with food, sound, and…
Read articleMore on Science Humour – Puns are awesome and unavoidable.
I googled fibromyalgia and this came up – what *is* it? Along with a few other science flavored pieces (including one from the curator of SCQ’s…
Read articleA Trip to the Big Valley Creation Science Museum -or- You know, I don’t even care to finish this.
A little over a year ago, a 60,000 sq.ft. museum opened in Petersburg KY dedicated to the Judeo-Christian interpretation of the origins of humans, the universe,…
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The Annotated Fuld -or- Lehman Employees Respond to Bankruptcy in Creative Way -or- “This Sucks”
By Dave Semeniuk,
Many of you are likely somewhat familiar with the mortgage fiasco currently underway in the United States. This year alone, the USG has bailed out three…
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