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We watched the first episode of the BBC's new science programme last night. It's not Tomorrow's World, thankfully, though still pop-sci as anything.

However they did show this:



Cool!
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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 10:49am on 23/07/2009 under , , , ,
[personal profile] sammywol brightened my day with this link to some truly wonderful science geek jokes.

My favourite so far:

A "joke" I heard in special relativity class:

"So, a bar walked into a physicist. Oops, wait, wrong reference frame."
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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 06:24pm on 03/04/2009 under , ,
Computer program self-discovers laws of physics. I'd love to see that scale to genome to protein to biological processes.
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is typified by last night's BBC3 episode. Spoilers ahead! )
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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 03:16pm on 20/10/2005 under , ,
The Church of Reality appeals to me far more than most other religions I've been exposed to. A basic respect for truth and scientific enquiry helps, as does one of the inner mysteries of the church.

Now they have proper official religion status.

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