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Fantastic fake science books and where to find them
favorited 12 times, recently by shelleycat, LobsterMitten, Lizc, alyxstarr, hippugeek, Lentrohamsanin, Dr. Wu, sebastienbailard, milkrate, lampoil, jeffburdges, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
2 months ago
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"I have had such a huge problem with my own sense of self-deprecating humour at our weekly labmeetings: things go wrong in the lab all the time, for everyone. Most people just don't mention it at all and only report their Great Progress at the weekly..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sherlockt
3 months ago
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"I've been a science fair judge several times, and the projects on this page look like they might be pretty good, actually ("Fat Man To Mars" and "Garlic The Silent Killer" look like a lot of work went into them).
I've seen..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by olya, uncleozzy
9 months ago
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"Needs more Fry/Laurie. (Link goes to Skepchick blog with the Uri Geller parody as embedded YouTube video. I was going to link to the video directly, but the YouTube comments made my brain lose any and all spoon-bending powers it might once have..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by axon
9 months ago
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"I played this too growing up in Holland (unsurprisingly, the danger was water, not lava.)
But is this a meme?
It resembles the birds and milk bottle situation: all through Britain birds (tits) discovered how to peck open a new type of milk bottle..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hjo3
9 months ago
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"I can see myself breaking this chain very quickly:
"Yes that's my tall (normal) coffee. Here is the small amount of money I owe you."
"Oh, don't worry, the person in front of you already paid FOR you!"
"Oh...oh... okay...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ekstasis23, docpops
11 months ago
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"I wrote a MSc literature project on Williams Syndrome several years ago (2000 I think, so everything I know is dated). It's very interesting. They have a deletion of about 16 genes, so it should theoretically be easy to say "Oh, musical ability..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by jamjam, greatgefilte
11 months ago
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"Bring a drink, like a bottle of water, and sip from it during the meeting. When you feel tears coming up, CHOKE ON THE DRINK! (Or, you know, fake it for safety's sake.) Cough! Distract! Tears while choking are appropriate, and you have an excuse to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by CunningLinguist
Last year
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"No one wears a helmet in Holland because bikes are never in fast car traffic. They only drive on the same road on quiet residential streets (max speed about 40 km/h or 25 m/h (same thing)) Anything faster, and there will be a completely separate bike..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by olya, kosher_jenny, sebastienbailard, isopraxis, craniac
Last year
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"Gouda cheese (baked in) and maple syrup (on top).
Everyone I feed these to love them, even though they think it sounds gross.
I usually bake my pancakes the Dutch way: they're like crepes but somewhat thicker and greasier. It would taste the same..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Silly Ashles
Last year
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"From the 9kok myspace:
"soon we'll be making killer shit that will cover every inch of your body."
Metafilter: Soon we'll be.. (etc.)" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by grobstein
Last year
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"I have my eye on Amsterdam
Okay, I'm from Amsterdam originally (well, Amsterdam's suburbia, to be honest) and moved to Toronto. I find that the image of Amsterdam as a tourist destination is very different from the image you get from actually..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by freudenschade
Last year
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"Here's a list of professors who blog.
They don't all blog about their work, and many are not anonymous, but there has to be something in there.
I also know of this blog by an anonymous female science prof about gender issues in academics.
There's..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by limeonaire
Two years ago
MeFi comment:
"Was this really not posted before? Did people want to wait until it was live? I am never on top of things, so I'm kind of expecting you all to yell "QUADRUPLE" and show me all the previous posts about Vox that were tagged unlogically and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blacklite
Two years ago
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"I don't use it myself, but I've heard good things about emusic and they have a free trial period." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tdreyer1
Two years ago
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"Last year someone was Clark Kent: superman costume (just shirt) underneath a suit + tie. Add glasses and you're done. Rip open the shirt halfway through the evening, after people have been trying to guess who you are for a while. (Or carefully..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BoscosMom
Two years ago
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"Mine are in a pile on a floor, but they're actually meant to be on a hanger in the hall closet. It's just a clothes hanger, but I hang bags on it. Sometimes. Usually they're on the floor, though. And one of them doubles as a cat bed, but that was..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tastybrains
Two years ago
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"I second the drive letter suggestion. We've had this problem at work, where it was not just the iPod but ANYTHING plugged into the USB port: things showed up in the device manager, but nowhere else.
Try changing the drive letter, like this:
-have..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Captain_Science
Two years ago
