"We could send email. Just not more than--" "--500 miles, yes," I finished for him, "I got that. But why didn't you call earlier?" "Well, we hadn't collected enough data to be sure of what was going on
until just now." Right. This is the chairman of *statistics*. "Anyway, I asked one of the geostatisticians to look into it--"

"But there's another way. Gravitational waves should also stretch and squeeze pulsars as they pass by, subtly changing the radio pulses they produce. So by monitoring an array of pulsars throughout the galaxy, astronomers should be able to see the effects of nanohertz to microhertz gravitational waves passing by. The array of pulsars should effectively shimmer as the waves wash over it, like a grid of buoys bobbing on the ocean. ... These guys say the next generation of radio telescope arrays such as the Allen Telescope Array in California and the Square Kilometer Array in Australia or South Africa, should be capable of making the required measurements. And the scientific potential of the data is huge."

"The Chameleon Guitar -- so named for its ability to mimic different instruments -- is an electric guitar whose body has a separate central section that is removable. This inserted section, the soundboard, can be switched with one made of a different kind of wood, or with a different structural support system, or with one made of a different material altogether. Then, the sound generated by the electronic pickups on that board can be manipulated by a computer to produce the effect of a different size or shape of the resonating chamber."

"However, what this research has shown is that this is not the case. The electron in fact takes several paths at once. ... This is actually very remarkable because it means that nature specifically engineered a molecule that manifests quantum behaviour on a larger scale then it usually appears."

> Who would remember if we all died?

The race of intelligent beings who, millions of years from now, finds a small black hole orbiting a star, with a flag on its moon. Honestly, if the human race has to end, that is exactly how I want us to go out.

"Plutonium-239 found inside a broken, rusty safe has been shown to be of historic significance: dating from December 1944 it is the very first weapons-grade plutonium refined at the site, or anywhere in the world. "

"Camera 7: looking at the Underground Experimental Cavern from the Saleve side. Camera 8: looking out of the window of the 1st Floor of the SCX building that houses the CMS Control room."

"An incredible photo of the Large Helical Device in Japan built to test plasma fusion confinement."

"For ham radio operators who like to contact stations over greater distances than would ordinarily be possible on the VHF frequencies, radio aurora is great! Besides the thrill of making contacts that most poeple would consider impossible, the phenomenon itself is fascinating - and like its visual counterpart, very unpredictable. It's the thrill of the chase."

"Actually, the top and bottom quarks were originally named truth and beauty. They were renamed to top and bottom because the original names were thought to be silly. Names like top and bottom count as sensible in the context of quantum mechanics."

"None of it will matter ... once we reach peak solar in 2015."

"careful studies of the distribution and motion of galaxies confirm that it is homogeneous on the largest scales we can see, with no sign of a special point to call the centre."

"The color names for these different types of sounds are derived from a loose analogy between the spectrum of frequencies of sound wave present in the sound ... and the equivalent spectrum of light wave frequencies."

"This weekend, you can learn a few strategies for keeping an egg safe when thrown off a 4 story building."

"The classic physics experiment involving sound, a tube of propane and fire."

A rather addictive yet simple space/gravity style game.

"Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe."