Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

There's juft fomething funny about reading Ifaac Newton explaining how to do bafic arithmetic.
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long s as f Ha. I'll have to find a way to watch The Vicar of Dibley

Middle name Wait for It

Many physicists refer to the Big Bang as a singularity, that the very notion of time began at the Big Bang, while the Big Bang itself is not a part of the universe. In other words, if there were a "clock of the Universe," the starting time would be a finite time ago, and you could get arbi...

I'm applying to grad school in Electrical & Computer Engineering at my alma mater and the GRE and my application fee are both waived, so I'm smiling.

False alarm nuclear attack warning on Hawaii. Said one ex defense official: "Thank God the President was playing golf." He was.

When you think deliberately enough to think in words, do you address yourself (“You need to return that library book tomorrow.”) or soliloquize (“I need to return that library book tomorrow.”)?

Ha. Found this while reading about the voice change on my phone. So there’s an assistant professor in the department of linguistics at the University of British Columbia named Molly Babel.

I've never had apparel from a school that I went to. I think the only shirt I've ever owned with a college/university name on it was a Penn State shirt I bought in my first area as a missionary, which was in State College, PA.

Anybody want you to mentor them?

That's hilarious that Scaramucci is literally a stock clown character.

I read the epic of Gilgamesh after watching the Star Trek TNG episode Darmok.

Just don't react like Amy Bishop if ever denied tenure

Detectives use font knowledge for investigation. story

The document is dated 2006. But it was typed using Calibri. And, as the investigators noted in their report, that font was not commercially available until the following year.

I love it

A funny coincidence: If you have a question about life, the universe, or anything, where do you go for an answer? Google, of course. What's the value of גוגל (Google) in the Hebrew gematria numerological system? 42

I remember in the 4th grade the teacher brought in a TV to watch the space shuttle Challenger live. When it broke into sprawling white plumes, I thought to myself "I don't think it's supposed to do that" and I remember the teacher's face. She slowly went up, turned off the TV, and awkwardl...

Many^100 moons ago, when I was a small child, I remember my mom borrowing a VCR from the library along with a cassette to watch a movie at home

There are some cool free professor-written textbooks out there. Example . A physics I textbook on classical mechanics, but Page 12 (37 of the PDF), paragraphs 2 and 3 talks about blood sugar and the brain and how to leverage that knowledge to avoid a bad time to study. It actually goes quite a bit i...