One of the best blog titles I’ve seen…
http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2014/01/05/go-home-arctic-youre-drunk/
Category: Crazy
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Match.com
One of the funnier tweets in my stream…
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Don’t Be a Jerk
Humorous tourist tips for visiting NYC…
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My Audience is Sophisticated
The top post for this blog in 2013 was The Cross Product of your Legs is your Penis.
Surely it was popular due to the complicated math…
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Have a Drink
If you haven’t tried the NY Times dialect map online, check it out. It’s amusing. It tries to determine where you are from based on how you say words and which words you use for various terms.
As soon as it asked “What do you call the thing from which you might drink water in a school?” I knew it would nail where I am from. People from Milwaukee call it a bubbler. Everyone else looks at us funny when we say that.
After each question, it shows you a map indicating where that answer likely places you (red is likely, blue not so much). Most questions have gradual ranges of where it might put you. But here’s the bubbler answer map:
That red spot in the middle is Milwaukee and vicinity, drinking water at the bubbler…
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Melt Ice With Cheese
You want to use provolone or mozzarella. Those have the best salt content.
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A Citi Bike Christmas
Citi Bike does marketing very well…
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Bragging
We had a NY/ Philly company holiday party today that started with bowling.
I’m not a bowler. I bowl once in a blue moon. But this was a fun group to bowl, hang out, and drink beer with.
First game I was lame. Broke 100, so not horrible, but barely. Second game I got in a groove.
Strike or spare in frames 2-9. I bowled a 186 (I am Fish below). More than 20 pins over my all time high. Crazy.
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Even The Smithsonian Does Bad Science Reporting
There’s an article about how their totally silent anechoic chamber will drive anyone crazy after 45 minutes. How silence drives people bonkers.
Except the relevant data (the only data mentioned) referred to being in this chamber in the dark. So is it silence? Or silence and darkness combined?
That’s a really big difference.
I’d expect that from pretty much any regular media, but the Smithsonian site? Really? Can anyone report science well?
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Santa Rides the 4 Train
Just your average Saturday afternoon at the Bowling Green subway stop.
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