Last week a lady called me on the phone at the reference desk to ask if she had to murder a crocodile before skinning it. Then she wanted to know how to make chicken wings. I had to read her the recipe over the phone.

Libraries are like fucking international waters.

from here.

You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed ( Read more... )

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Happy Valentine's day to those of you who didn't get one of the totally amazing Valentines I bought at Giant.


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I can't even with this video.

I really enjoyed reading this article about Occupy DC vs. the rest of the Occupy movement. It captured a lot of the sorts of political and philosophical tensions that distinguish DC activism from activism in other cities.

That's why some people love Washington, others hate it and some just plain don't understand it. It's both a place where grand ( Read more... )

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...a bunch of amazing art. Or, you know, just give me some monies and I will do it myself.

Right now I'm crushing hard on Anne Ten Donkelaar's broken butterflies:


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Hey, mercuryfading remember that magazine I used to pick up at the newsagents and then I would text you troubling facts about polar bears and other science-related things?

And then you'd be all: Stop reading that magazine!

They totally deliver to the US. :DDDDDD

Hugo Schwyzer, renowned male "feminist," attempted murderer, proud WASP (the WASPS! So downtrodden! Yes?), super gross "I slept with a million students while I was supposed to be teaching them about feminism let me tell you it was hot but I've chaaaanged and I'll never do it again (but did I emphasize its hotness enough? I'm not sure I did!) but ( Read more... )