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Mmm. Protein. To a certain someone: I got there first this time! Thanks to Indexed.

Do you have what it takes to be Scientific Blogging's alpha geek?  Well it’s time put your geek where your mouth is…IF YOU CAN! But first a warning: yes, you could Google for these answers, but then, deep down, you’ll know you’re a bad person. Then again, you might win a free Geeks’ Guide to World Domination. So you’ll have to balance total loss of self worth with free geek schwag. It’s up to you. Email your answers to geekoff@gmail.com. DON'T COMMENT YOUR ANSWERS or you will allow slackers to water down the winner’s pool, thus decreasing your chances of receiving said geek schwag (and…

Random Noise #12.5 : Irrational  Numbers I'm far too rational to blog about other people's irrationality. I'll just get on with writing my next article and leave writing about silly superstitions to others.

D'you dig the Geek Off? Did you email your answers to geekoff@gmail.com? If not, too late sucka! That is, too late until Monday morning, when we play another round of the feud. Yep, every week there's a Geek Off and every week you can win a free Geeks' Guide to World Domination: Be Afraid, Beautiful People. Check the quiz Monday, email your answers 'til Friday at midnight EST, then check the answers and fight about corrections starting Saturday morning. And congratulations to last week's winner. There were many very good entries (Joann's extensive list of calculator words, all having to do…

"Berlusconi in his life had about twenty wives, two of whom were his" Roberto Benigni

Do you have what it takes to be Scientific Blogging's alpha geek? Well it’s time put your geek where your mouth is…IF YOU CAN! But first a warning: yes, you could Google for these answers, but then, deep down, you’ll know you’re a bad person. Then again, you might win a free Geeks’ Guide to World Domination. So you’ll have to balance total loss of self worth with free geek schwag. It’s up to you. Email your answers to geekoff@gmail.com. DON'T COMMENT YOUR ANSWERS or you will allow slackers to water down the winner’s pool, thus decreasing your chances of receiving said geek schwag (and you’ll…

I Just Hate it When ... I just hate it when other people blog about or link to a topic when I'm half-way through writing an article on the very same topic.  You know who you are. Hate! Hate! Hate! Copyright: Arturo J. PaniaguaI doubly hate it when somebody beats me to the metaphorical inkpot and does a write-up using my kind of humor.  Grrrrr!Caution #1:  strong language!Caution #2: coffeesplutter alert!The science of anger.The image is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0Source: Wikimedia  -  Copyright: Arturo J. Paniagua

Solving Problems in the New Math Generations of schoolkids have been puzzled by this problem:If it takes 10 workers 10 days to fill in a hole,how many days does it take 5 workers to fill in 1/2 a hole? Walsall Housing Group in the UK thought they had the definitive answer,but it didn't stand up to the scrutiny of peer review.

Like dolphins and unicorns, butterflies exist mostly to show artists what to draw on Trapper Keepers.  As such, you wouldn’t expect there to be a major difference between the genders.  Natural selection should be working hard to keep all butterflies at maximum cuteness.  Yet selection giving the males a slight advantage in the arms race to the Lisa Frank drawing board, and scientists want know why.   For example, the male Leilia Empress butterfly, shown on the left below, is definitely trumping the female in at least a few of ethologist Konrad Lorenz’s criteria for…

I just came across this little gem on the QED blog: De Wiskundige en de CanyonDon't worry - it's in English! Enjoy!  :)