Valentine’s Day is nearly upon us and the folks over at Ironic Sans put together a great collection of scientist Valentines cards. Cards are great, but my favorite things about this holiday (aside from the 75% off candy sales the next day) are the “NECCO Sweetheart” candies that make their appearance only once a year. Over the years I must have seen every last phrase on those little wafer candies, which is why I though it would be a good idea to come up with some new ones. ENJOY!
You can’t squeeze blood from a stone, but you can get sound out of sand dunes. Singing dunes often make sound on their own, as a result of spontaneously coordinated… Read more !
Some scientists and engineers are getting political with the new organization called Scientists and Engineers for America. SEA’s mission statement says they are targeting “elections at all levels of government… Read more !
Snowboard/skating phenom Shaun White lets writer Jeanna Brynner use him to illustrate the physics of x-treme sports. As a lifelong skater and snowboarder, I was a little suprised by this… Read more !
Because PRE (one of several scholarly journals coming out of the American Physical Society) publishes papers like the one covered in this Fox News story and this CNN/Money story about… Read more !