Continuing Thread: Periodic Tables

LINK TO SITE

I am going to start collecting these sites because they speak to the iconic nature of the periodic table and physical science. At this site a bunch of blissed out hippies felt they could bridge science and society by making prints that they labelled for the different elements. Some elements like Cu they had a grip on but some they just spoke to their "inner chemist" to make the panel.

Found on the Web: Different Kinds of Failure

I came across this link to a website that collects pictures of the different kinds of failure. Some of the pictures are political, some are lolcats and some are photoshopped but the one I like is this one (I remember when this happened):But this one made me laugh too:

LINK TO WEBSITE

And then there is this website that is similar but more focused on people like this who remind you that you are not REALLY having a bad day if your document won't print:

LINK TO WEBSITE

Made Me Think, Made My Head Hurt

There is a website that I stumbled across where intellectuals were asked if they have ever changed their minds about something important and asked them to write about it. It is astonishing the breadth of response and some of it is heavy reading but it all makes me think.

The question this year was framed this way:

The Edge Annual Question — 2008

When thinking changes your mind, that's philosophy.
When God changes your mind, that's faith.
When facts change your mind, that's science.

WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT? WHY?

Science is based on evidence.
What happens when the data change?
How have scientific findings or arguments changed your mind?"

http://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_index.html

Would the last ABU student to leave the Internet please turn off the light?

Really? It has come to this? What ennui? Malaise? Karma? .... Secrets?

Found on Facebook: Very Disturbing Images

A very serious issue has been raised on Facebook concerning the use of ABU lab glassware. What is most disturbing is that the image on the far left is the MOST RECENT image. We need to know ... are these the same E-flask?

Found on the Web

I liked this but the description makes the reaction more mysterious then it actually is.

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/01/video-of-a-beau.html