Super Science Whiz Bang Contest

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If you don’t care about free stuff, skip to the next message to enjoy today’s wholesome scientific and supermodel-ish goodness!

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Okay, you are still reading. We only rank at about 200,000 on Alexa which means there just aren’t enough people talking about us. So we’re going to have a contest and basically bribe you into supporting us. We know we have lots of readers but we want to see the love and knock some of those boring science sites out of the top 50.

So here’s the deal. Link to us, or to one of our posts, or make us one of your favorites on Technorati

or some way that it shows up on Technorati, and you will be entered into our nifty contest. When we have 400 new sites linking to us, two people win. I will turn on the comments so you can let me know you have linked to us. Spread the word. The faster we get to 400, the sooner we give away good stuff.

First Prize: The slickest-looking speaker set out there. Edifier’s E1100 2.1 channel speaker. Yes, it is that cool. And it will enhance your nerd cred tremendously.

Second Prize: In plenty of time for Halloween, this nifty remote control helicopter. Dazzle and amaze children this Halloween as this 7-inch Remote Control copter zips and zings around their little heads while you shriek with delight.

Sign us up, people! ( and thanks for reading )

To everyone who’s lurked, subscribed, newsfed or passed us on to someone else, many thanks. It’s terrific to know that people are interested in science and … well … supermodels. And humor.

Okay, this little site isn’t beating boingboing just yet but it’s nice to be appreciated.

Please spread the word and encourage people to stop in. If I break 100,000 on Alexa I will have a contest for a cool gadget. Oh, and offer suggestions for what gadgets I should give away. And say hello. And bookmark me.

BONUS!

I just noticed these bits of scientific goodness:

Sclerotic Rings - “I just discovered the blog Science and Supermodels…boy, talk about being able to kill with snark at 200 paces…”

and tangsm - “So great. Bookmarking…”

and finally Ophelia is dead - “I’m so in love with that blog, even with just a cursory glance.”

Zowie! Someone is going to get their hair pulled by Lady Scientist for that last one. I sure hope it is me.

Thanks to Paul for posting the link.

3. This study says men are smarter than women. This study says tall people are smarter than short people. This article says a woman is mentally playing tennis, even in a coma. So I should be able to build a space shuttle in an hour if you give me the schematic because I am tall, male and not in a coma.

Here’s how you can impress me, sociologists. Given all those studies can you explain to me why it is I can’t win an argument with Lady Scientist and still get sex?

2. James Lipton is still employed. Worse, he has Teri Hatcher on the season premiere of Inside The Actor’s Studio. You know he has truly scraped the bottom of the barrel when he has to fawn over Teri Hatcher and issue forth sentences like, “And tell us how you came to do the immortal work, Brain Smasher … A Love Story.”

Want to impress me, archaelogists? Tell me why her gaze doesn’t turn everyone to stone, because she is clearly wearing the Head Of Medusa on her neck:

And The Number One Mystery Of Science For September is …

1. Christina Aguilera and whoever this guy is she is with.

I can appreciate that Christina Aguilera gave hope to ugly guys everywhere by marrying him but something about this is just wrong. I have five medical degrees and I can’t figure out what is going on with his teeth.

The only answer? Well, there are two, and it proves both creationists and evolutionists wrong:

A) This guy is a neanderthal, so evolution doesn’t exist, and

B) The fact that Christina Aguilera married him proves there is no God.

This study says that TV in the bedroom cuts the sex life in half. Now, this is an Italian study so maybe that skews the results. Italian men only want to have sex with someone else’s wife. And Italian women? Don’t get me started. If I had to have sex with Italian women, my sex life would be cut in half too. Unless it is Monica Bellucci. And then it would be something like 8X.

But it seems to make sense. No TV equals fewer distractions and more boredom - scientists inherently understand this important correlation. So hidden cameras, yes. TVs, no.

Nothing drives me crazier than bad science which gets published in big forums as reliable. No, I don’t mean the silliness they publish as science on ScienceBlogs.com. I mean actual science, only badly done, and this one published in a news service.

This German study says redheads get the most sex, not blondes. Now, common sense tells you this isn’t true because, as all scientists know, blondes rule.

Heck, my awareness of this fact is so keen I have developed some sort of allergy and/or eye affliction that prevents me from even seeing brunettes.*

But let’s not use me as an example, let’s approach this scientifically.

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