So last year, I was working as a Grad Assistant in the Engineering and Physics libraries and switched over to just being an hourly employee this year in cataloging, since my boss made it eminently clear she wasn't going to renew my GA contract at Engineering ( Read more... )

once upon a time, a comic book writer and an artist started talking. And as fate would have it, they asked the two most dangerous questions people can pose: 1) Why? and 2) What if?

Specifically, why were comic book superheroes invariably portrayed as the heroic, go-lucky idols of humanity? Why were they always given non-human (or more-than-human ( Read more... )

(re-barcoding books leaves me with most of my mind free to ponder the mysteries of the universe ( Read more... )

I guess we can honestly say she went tits up....

May we all look this good at 80.

so, you wanna understand the universe, do you? Step right up, sit right down, and follow along, it's time for a brief lesson in science!


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it's been going around, why not join the fun?

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There's no avoiding the fact that the world is going straight to hell, my friends; here's the latest proof:

Proof the First: (story found via thnidu)
Rio Carnival float rejected

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- A judge issued an order Thursday prohibiting a Rio samba group from parading during carnival with a float depicting naked bodies of Holocaust ( Read more... )

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has just published a list of recent baby names here in Georgia, and linked to an online search tool for it ( Read more... )

Given

• The dollar is progressively weakening.
• Commodity prices are rising.
• For the past 50 years, the US Dollar has been the currency of mark for international business contracts.
• All those EU businesses with multi-billion *DOLLAR* contracts suddenly faced with a dropping value , having to pay out in much more valuable EUR.
• Already French-owned/operated ( Read more... )

Garrett Lisi, who decided to adopt the life of a surfer/snowboarder rather than university academic after getting his PhD (and who wouldn't want to live in Hawaii 9 months out of the year, surfing?), just may have found the way to the Unified Field Theory.

Using the multidimensional properties of the E8 figure, first described in mathematics ( Read more... )