szymon:

Thanks to Fredrik Hoffman for the photo! In Sarasota, Florida. With Peter Westerink, Remko van Schaik and Ruben Poncia on Chalk Festival | streetartutopia

szymon:

Thanks to Fredrik Hoffman for the photo! In Sarasota, Florida. With Peter Westerink, Remko van Schaik and Ruben Poncia on Chalk Festival | streetartutopia

I mean, for various reasons I think this [faster-than-light neutrino] result will go away. But I don’t think it was wrong to present it, and it wasn’t wrong to try and find out if it was right. And what’s really important to remember is that new results don’t always make the old theory wrong. This is a really important and basic concept that’s often misunderstood. A lot of people are very critical here. They say, “Why are you doing science if you’re just going to find out it’s all wrong anyway?” But that’s just not how it works. Even if the results turn out to be true, it would tell us that Einstein’s theory is still right over a large regime. But we would then know that there are some deeper underlying differences that apply when you do these extremely precise measurements. Usually, when a new theory is shown to be right, it simply underlies the old one, which is now an approximation. It doesn’t mean we need to throw away the old theory. How a Physicist Sees the Universe: Messy and Sublime | Wired Science | Wired.com
guillaumeb:

I mean… seriously…

guillaumeb:

I mean… seriously…

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers AFP: Heaven is a ‘fairy story’, says Stephen Hawking
szymon:

Spiral ballpoint ink cartridge lasts twice as long
by Han Chi-hoon, Kim Yeon-soo, Park Byong-gon & Kim Sung-geun

szymon:

Spiral ballpoint ink cartridge lasts twice as long
by Han Chi-hoon, Kim Yeon-soo, Park Byong-gon & Kim Sung-geun

afternoonsnoozebutton:

Last year, NPR received less federal funding than Liberty University (a small Christian school in VA that banned student Democrats for being anti-Christian, has a rule that students of different gender on campus can hug for no more than 3 seconds, and has a dinosaur in its museum labeled as [no joke] 3000 years old)
(Salon)

afternoonsnoozebutton:

Last year, NPR received less federal funding than Liberty University (a small Christian school in VA that banned student Democrats for being anti-Christian, has a rule that students of different gender on campus can hug for no more than 3 seconds, and has a dinosaur in its museum labeled as [no joke] 3000 years old)

(Salon)

thenoobyorker:

Curious: How much did you pay for war this year?
You probably have paid more than you feel comfortable with.

thenoobyorker:

Curious: How much did you pay for war this year?

You probably have paid more than you feel comfortable with.