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Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Ellie Kemper

Ellie Kemper
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Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

The Curse Of Top Gun

You may think an article about curses is a little too fringe weirdo for the Internet’s preeminent science blogger but that’s not the case at all. Some things, even things you would usually disregard as mistaken correlation/causation hysteria (see my important work – The Science of Freak Magnets – for an example) don’t have any other explanation, so they become science because they make us re-think things, change our paradigm … whatever term you want to use.

The obvious curse of the movie “Top Gun” is one such event. It can’t be coincidence and I’ll tell you why soon enough.

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Thursday, January 1st, 2009

Dichen Lachman

Dichen Lachman
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Thursday, January 1st, 2009

Amy Acker

Amy Acker
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008

Anna Torv

Anna Torv
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Friday, October 24th, 2008

Everything I Need To Know About Science I Learned From Watching “The Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra”

It’s not often you can boil down complicated abstract ideas of science or culture into simple concepts everyone can understand.  Gems like “for every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction” don’t come along every day.   But every time someone asks me what science is like I simply say “You’ve seen The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra.  It’s like that” and they nod knowingly.

What?  You haven’t seen it?   Read on my friends.   In a few key phrases you will know everything you need to know.  Science wisdom, as distilled by quotes from one of the greatest science films of all time (and it’s fun for Halloween too) – The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra. It’s also PG and totally safe for older children, unless your kid is prone to irrational fear of Skeletorama-motion plastic props and utters sentences like …

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Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Can I Back Order My Mr. Fusion Now?

If you were a young-ish science student in the mid-1980s there are two movies that remain in your collection to this day; Back To The Future and, of course, Buckaroo Banzai: Across The Eighth Dimension.

‘Buckaroo Banzai’ was completely inplausible – even I can’t be a rock star, neurosurgeon and world class physicist. Well, maybe I can, but you can’t and even I don’t have my own video game and comic book like he does.

So for actual science discussions, Back To The Future remains the default movie of the period. Like Yahoo Serious in “Young Einstein”, Marty ends up doing some science (in Marty’s case by accident) but also invents rock and roll. Rock and roll shows up a lot in science movies. This is because music is math and math was created to give scientists something to do while sleeping. (more…)

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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Lily Cole

Lily Cole is the un-hottest model ever. I don’t know why Rocío Guirao Díaz is toiling away in obscurity while this girl gets famous being in Heath Ledger’s last movie. The movie which, by the way, will likely make her a star because, weird-looking alien face or not, Lily Cole can act.
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Indiana Cash And The Supermodel Of Doom

I am, I confess, among the most boring men in my family. In a family lineage that includes war heroes, riverboat gamblers, inventors, crusaders and even a guy named King Arthur, I instead write science humor on the interwebs.

Not much to brag about.

That’s not to say I don’t do stuff – I have travelled all over Europe, parts of the mid-east, and a decent chunk of Asia. I’ve gone up against the Bulgarian mafia, done falconry in England and faced down Turkish police. There just isn’t a lot to explore these days and real-life adventuring is so obscure as to be a little weird to take on as a career: There are no inner reaches of Africa left unmapped and the Amazon has better cell phone reception than I get in Silicon Valley.

Heck, even being an astronaut means you only get to drive a glorified delivery van to a warehouse orbiting the globe.

But I look like I do stuff and a few months ago I was at a conference and a woman came up to me and started babbling about interviewing me after a near-disaster in the Lincoln Sea part of the Arctic Ocean during the ESA’s CryoSat-2 mission last year. I looked at her quizzically and finally she noticed.

“I have the wrong person, don’t I?” she asked. I nodded my head (1). “Well, they described him and said he looked like a younger Harrison Ford so I assumed it was you.”

She meant the Harrison Ford in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, of course, and not that knucklehead Han Solo in “Star Wars” who mumbled something unintelligible about making the Kessel Run in “less than twelve parsecs.” No one in my family would ever make that kind of grade-school physics mistake.

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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Kaley Cuoco

Kaley Cuoco, currently co-starring in “The Big Bang Theory”
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