Am I a Geek Dad? Well, I'm a geek, and a dad. But in this case, I'm talking about the cool website Geek Dad. To celebrate their third anniversary they're opening up voting for their Geek Dad Awards, with categories like Best Actor/Actress, Best Gadget, and so on. Of particular interest to me are the categories
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i'm not sure why i find this so funny. via fresh photons
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Zach Weiner is a shrewd, shrewd man. He does stuff like this just because he knows I'll link to it. Click through to see why (NSFW-ish). But he should know better. I got my revenge years ago by failing all those jocks in my astronomy class*. Also: Zach is 28 today, that whippersnapper. Get off my lawn**!*Actually,
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Yeah, Zach's pretty close on this one…… but who knows? Maybe things'll change for science on TV. Maybe sometime soon.
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or... bike route versus street route in NYC. who do you think wins the race between the neistat brothers?
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It's walking cats that is truly problematic. Feel free to construct your own similes. (Via Cynical-C.)
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Here is a question for the ages: who would win in a Treknobabble fight, Wil Wheaton or Sheldon Cooper?My first thought was that Sheldon might trip up because he is so well-versed in physics that it might actually impede his ability to analyze Trek science. However, we know that his analysis of comic books is
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Things I have thought about today, in no particular order:Gamma-ray burstsLightningA heretofore undetected but potentially densely-populated class of objects in the solar systemLaundryWhy my phone sometimes rings audibly and other times chooses not toThe electron column density in a magnetic bubble after a nuclear detonation in the upper atmosphere Ice cream sandwichesMarsSocial networking and astronomyTemporarily
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... am an authority and I argue that Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is my favorite web comic because it is the best. Therefore it must be true and if you disagree the terrorists have won. Tip o' the Einstein hair to all the people who say I should stick with astronomy.
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... was in school for a long time. essentially, i never left, its just that now instead of taking tests, i have to create new knowledge, convince my "peers" that the new information is interesting, and struggle to find jobs every couple of years. as i really began to focus on one field during my phd studies, i realized one particularly fascinating and frustrating fact: the more i learned, the more questions i had! the more knowledge i gained, the more i realized i *didnt* know! and i became a
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how can beautiful birds dancing to michael jackson be this funny?
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This is beyond brilliant. It is head-asplodey meta-hyper geekariffic. If you aren't familiar with the Hitler parody videos you can catch up here, but you really have to watch a few before seeing this, the transformative end-of-the-meme bringer. Anyone making a Downfall parody after this is basically an SEO professional getting a Twitter account now. Ausgezeichnet.
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... just received a very odd press release: the Tulsa Air and Space Museum is partnering with something called the Rocket Racing League to create — get this — a rocket racing show. Like an air show, but with rocket-powered vehicles. They have a poster and everything:Now, as soon as I read this press release
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Time for my irregular not-semi-annual roundup of recent science webtoons. Today we have a pair of comics detailing the difference between Movie Science and Real Science. Enjoy!AlexTues and Fri here, via RSS feed, and twitter @skydayRead about my own private space venture in The Satellite Diariesread more
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... used to make little flipbooks inside my notebooks in school, but this is pretty much the ultimate one! thanks mike!
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rhett and link have a clever stop animation t-shirt war!rhett and link also produced a funny facebook song several years ago, and the cornhole theme song!
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Feeling like Valentine's Day is a little too cutesy for an intellectual heavyweight such as yourself? Nonsense; the heart may have its reasons, but reason can certainly figure them out, given sufficient grant funding and some diligent graduate students. Jennifer Ouellette points to a talk by Mary Roach that is safe for TED
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Same shape, different moon… An interplanetary dedication of love for all you starry-eyed geeks:This is an image from Cassini. It's a closeup of a crater on Rhea, a moon of Saturn about half the size of our own natural satellite. I love how the small crater and ridge inside the bigger crater make it look
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