Somewhat familiar



The amount of damage our little horrors have done chasing flies or other insects and yet they’re completely useless when it comes to spiders…

I Hate Myself For Finding This Hilarious

It was an unfortunate mistake. I shouldn’t laugh. No really, I shouldn’t. From the Evening Standard:

WHSmith sorry for Josef Fritzl Father’s Day promotion
Amar Singh

19.06.09

High street chain WH Smith apologised today after promoting a book on cellar rapist Josef Fritzl as a Father’s Day gift.

Shoppers at the Lewisham branch were shocked to see a non-fiction book on the Austrian, who kept his daughter captive for 24 years, in a “Top 50 Books for Dad” display.

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Rare Isotopes, The Future of Hiphop

Oh no. Not more physics rapping. Where will it all end?

She’s baaack! AlpineKat (a.k.a., Kate MacAlpine), that is, who gave us the Large Hadron Rap last year — currently viewed by over 5 million people on YouTube, and still counting. This time, she busts a rhyme over the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), a new project of the DOE being bult at Michigan State University in East Lansing. MSU hosted an event this past week to celebrate the future of rare isotope research, and AlpineKat was on hand to debut her new rap in full HD version: three elevated screens 14 feet across, augmented by a cutting-edge sound system.

Via Twisted Physics