Silly putty is viscoelastic
I promised you guys a polymer lecture, and I had a good boring one about polymer stabilized systems all mapped out in my brain. Lucky for you, I spent the day engaged in some very cutting-edge research...
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Aww Baybeez!
Cute little devils, aren’t they. So I was talking to my ex-husband the other day, and I was asking him how his new baby was doing (he just got remarried about a year ago) and he said she was fine, and...
View ArticleI Like Other Planets
Seriously, I had all the ones in the Solar System memorized when I was six years old. Yeah, back when Pluto (a) was not only a planet but the smallest planet and (b) didn’t have a moon, and when...
View ArticleSee you in August
Well guys, I’m out for the summer. Tomorrow I leave for Europe. In our group meeting last week, my coworker said he finally figured out the pattern: every summer, my boss goes on tour, like a rock...
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I Really Like Other Planets
Water ice and evidence of historic rainfall on Mars. Smaller, rocky exoplanets near the habitable zone around their stars are being found. For a totally awesome exoplanet slideshow, click here....
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Outer Space is So Awesome
NASA says liquid confirmed on Saturn’s moon Titan PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — At least one of many large, lake-like features on Saturn’s moon Titan studied by the international Cassini spacecraft contains...
View ArticleExploding glass tears.
Today was Fun Physics Day at work, as often happens the afternoon after a whole morning is killed by meetings. I have no idea how we got on the subject, but today’s project ended up being Prince Rupert...
View ArticleSex 2.0! Part Three: Ethical Research
(Parts One and Two are here and here.) Being something of a scientist, and living in a society that revels in its hierarchy and is constantly looking for ways that at least appear objective to justify...
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More Outer Space Coolness
Literal coolness, given that we’re talking about a moon of Saturn. Water is amazing stuff from a chemical, physical and even biochemical standpoint–unique on multiple levels, absolutely required in...
View ArticleThis Is So Much Better Than My Undergrad Intro to Engineering Project
…but to give me credit where credit is due, the problem posed to us by our instructor was a lot less interesting, too. As I recall, he had us come up with something you could put on your shoes to...
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