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Comment on The Higgs Boson: God particle or Tory rumour? by Higgledy piggledy « Lost in Science

Higgledy piggledy « Lost in Science — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:21:59 +0000

[...] for more about the Higgs, see this tale at my old blog [...]

Comment on Lost in cat science by lsn

lsn — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:17:27 +0000

I’m thinking I’ll make the podcast option at this rate.

Comment on Science chic by lsn

lsn — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:12:37 +0000

The thing is, right, that The Kids frequently are interested in science. And then they realise that in order to do the fun stuff they have to first do an undergrad degree – which OK, they can still do minor explosions, and undergrad is frequently accompanied by alcohol and people who may be interested in actually talking to you, and/or other things – but in order to do the really large explosions you have to spend at least 4 years underpaid doing a PhD and selling your soul. Then you realise that Australia has no interest in actually paying scientists but rather is interested in funding its “industry” through the perpetual indentured labour of PhD students, and that’s usually when the dumb ones realise that they could have made large explosions AND gotten paid at a reasonable rate if they’d just joined the Army straight out of year 12.

OK, that could just be me.

Comment on Stop that pigeon by ataxophile

ataxophile — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 05:34:43 +0000

It was probably after their capeseed loaf.

Comment on Science chic by astrocave

astrocave — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:29:34 +0000

Ah yes, The Kids are always thinking about potential mortgages. What happened to wholesome childhood games like throwing rocks at each other?

Comment on Another year, another doomsday by astrocave

astrocave — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:23:01 +0000

Hmm. That does raise the question of whether they would have been the ones to get raptured anyway.

Comment on Science chic by lsn

lsn — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 22:31:46 +0000

This reminded me of the constant effort that’s made to get The Kids interested in science by convincing them that scientists are cool. Which for some reason never seems to work.

I think it’s because the smart ones can work out there’s no career in it, and so go for something which will allow them to take out a mortgage instead.

Comment on Another year, another doomsday by lsn

lsn — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 22:29:56 +0000

I remember the 1992 one! There was a big split among the students who felt they should still probably study for the coming exams and the ones who decided to party on, in the expectation the exams wouldn’t come. Then again, I think they were the same mob that would have gone out drinking that night anyway…

Comment on Destination Boston by Alex

Alex — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 05:35:57 +0000

Haha thanks for the link and the quote mining! I’m sorry I didn’t give your film a more elaborate review, but I saw it with so many other films together it was hard to really go into each one. I enjoyed Destination Day a lot- a good premise and a cool, punchy ending. It had the misfortune of being screened next to another film with a similar theme though, which is too bad.

Comment on Contents may differ from package by astrocave

astrocave — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:25:47 +0000

Hmm... Infoseek is now called Go.com. Unless you're Australian, of course, in which case it's powered by Google.