Why is an astronaut like a football player?
They both want touchdowns!
Q. What’s the most popular snack on Mars?
A. Marshmallows.
How do you know that Saturn is married more than once? Because he has lots of rings.
How does Jupiter hold up his trousers? With an asteroid belt.
The Heineken Uncertainty Principle says “You can never be sure how many beers you had last night.”
This paper has been making the rounds on my facebook feed. It describes issues facing women in astronomy in Germany.
It’s rather interesting, not only because there are still difficulties that women have to face which men do not, but the paper also desribes how the women who responded to the survey got their jobs, so it contains some advice on how to pursue a career in astronomy as well.
Here’s a short video by Jorge Cham (the creator of PhD comics) explaining the Higg’s boson.
Here is a nice piece calling the scientific community to put more effort in spreading their research through social media.
See also the link to “Science Sushi”for an interesting point of view.
So maybe tweeting our research resultswas not a bad idea after all!
These high energy particles, usually protons, are for most astronomer the annoying little critters whose signature must be subtracted from all of our data before we can work with it. But for some they are an observable all of their own and an enigmatic one at that. Their origins remain a mystery…
April is another great month for looking up at the sky. While last month Venus and Jupiter were the cause for all the excitement, it’s Saturn that has our attention in April. Saturn will be at opposition (directly opposite the Sun) this month, meaning extra bright and extra long viewing times at night. The peak opportunity to view will be on April 15. The info can all be found here
For those of you dealing with exam anxiety, here’s a site with some great advice and tips. Give it a read and it just might help. Just follow the link here
Have you ever wondered what age you would be if you happened to have been born on another planet? You can easily find out by heading to this webpage and entering your birth date. Check it out its pretty interesting.
*Next one doesn’t really rhyme unless you read it in an English accent, sorry!*
When Friedrich Hund saw the first cases
Of miner’s from Chile’s worst cases,
When looking for answers
Said “What are the chances
That they’d tunnel there in the first place??”
Here’s a pretty cool video demonstrating an effect known as coalescence cascade.
The original video and article can be found here