Shoes for the morning. Squee! #iglag http://bitly.com/iglag (Taken with instagram)
Slower than Light Neutrinos
Earlier this year, an international team of scientists announced they had found neutrinos — tiny particles with an equally tiny but non-zero mass — traveling faster than the speed of light. Unable to find a flaw themselves, the team put out a call for physicists worldwide to check their experiment. One physicist who answered the call was Dr. Ramanath Cowsik. He found a potentially fatal flaw in the experiment that challenged the existence of faster than light neutrinos.
It’s that time of the year when our inboxes are full of holiday cards from the companies we cover (and those we don’t). But I received a strange package today that prompted me to write an open letter to PR people. At the risk of sounding scrooge, here it goes…
Dear PR people,
Seasons Greetings…
In ad for newsletter, Ron Paul forecast “race war”
A direct-mail solicitation for Ron Paul’s political and investment newsletters two decades ago warned of a “coming race war in our big cities” and of a “federal-homosexual cover-up” to play down the impact of AIDS.
(via joshsternberg)
The Lions Mane Jellyfish is the largest jellyfish in the world. They have been swimming in arctic waters since before the dinosaurs (over 650 million years ago) and are among some of the oldest surviving species in the world.
The largest can come in at about 6 meters and has tentacles over 50 meters long. Pretty amazing when you think these things have been swimming around for so long.
They have hundreds of poisonous tentacles that it used to catch passing by fish. it then slowly drags in it’s prey and eats it.
I was talking to someone who works at the D.A.’s office about what effects, if any, Hurricane Irene would have on crime in the city. Typically, when there’s inclement weather, crime in NY goes down, as criminals are human beings, too, and don’t like being outside when it’s excessively cold, windy…
Times Square is named after The New York Times? The paper of record moved into the Times Building (now One Times Square), on 42nd Street and Broadway in 1904.
(photo: New York circa 1904. “Longacre Square.” Soon to be renamed Times Square after the recently completed New York Times tower…
- Toby: All right... It couldn't have gone far, right?
- Sam: No.
- Toby: Somewhere in this building... is our talent.
- Sam: Yes.
