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Just in case you decided to be a maverick and not take anyone's advice, here's a link that explains

How to tell if you damaged your eyes during the eclipse

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Cross-posted from my Dreamwidth journal.

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Went to see The Martian yesterday. Man, that is quite a film. Incredibly beautiful, and a really, really well-written script. Matt Damon was fantastic, as usual. Just an all-around excellent film.

But...

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Werner Heisenberg, Kurt Gödel, and Noam Chomsky walk into a bar.

Heisenberg turns to the other two and says, “Clearly this Is a joke, but how can we figure out if it’s funny or not?”

Gödel replies, “We can’t know that because we’re inside the joke."

Chomsky says, “Of course it’s funny. You’re just telling It wrong.”

Pa-dum-pum. Ssssss.

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Really interesting little article on a phenomenon nobody was aware of until this month's release of a new study: that young people today, eating the same amount of calories and doing the same amount of exercise as their peers in the 80's, are STILL ten percent heavier than their earlier counterparts.

Why it was easier to be skinny in the 1980's ( Read more... )

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The spacecraft was a long way from home. I thought it might be a good idea, just after Saturn, to have them take one last glance homeward. From Saturn, the Earth would appear too small for Voyager to make out any detail. Our planet would just be a point of light, a lonely pixel, hardly distinguishable from the many other points of light ( Read more... )

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The physics graduate asks "Why does it work?"
The engineering graduate asks "How does it work?"
The accountancy graduate asks "How much does it cost?"
The arts graduate asks "Do you want fries with that?"

Werner Heisenberg, Kurt Gödel, and Noam Chomsky walk into a bar. Heisenberg turns to the other two and says, "Clearly this is a joke, but how can we figure out if it's funny or not?" Gödel replies, "We can't know that because we're inside the joke." Chomsky says, "Of course it's funny. You're just telling it wrong."