It’s Friday. Here’s some stuff. Anyone tells me what the picture that goes with the post means you’ll get a prize. It’s that simple.
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My Top 4 Experiments of All Time
A ‘friend’ of mine wants to lend me the book The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments which is about elegant and simple experiments done to figure out some really fundamental stuff about our universe. It sounds pretty good but I figured I should take a moment and come up with my own favorite experiments first before reading it. If there’s overlap I’ll seem on top of my game, if there’s not I’ll seem original. Win-win. So with that in mind I’d like to present my top four favorite experiments scientists (or just humans) have done and why I like them so much. Why only four and not five or even ten? I wrote too much and didn’t want to push your interest to the breaking point, so enjoy what you’ve got and suggest a 5th in the comments!
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Friday Link Roundup!
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Or the thing we don’t have a better name for yet but hopefully is entertaining regardless.
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Nightliving at the CalAcademy
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You know how hard it can be organizing a group of friend’s, right? I hate it; I loathe trying to herd my friends. It either ends up a disorganized mess where nothing gets done or I become the drill sergeant insisting on regimented fun set to a specific schedule. I feel like I lose either way, and as War Games has taught me, the only way to win is not to play. So what’s a guy to do when presented with an opportunity to show large chunks of his friends a good time? The only option is to wrangle all your friends. *Sigh* This is the story of Nightlife.
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A Buncha Links from the Paleopals
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Friday is a day of possibility, at least once you’re off work. So until you’re off work maybe you can enjoy some of the things on the internet that have kept the Paleopals working for the weekend. Enjoy!
Patrick:
Terrible? yes. Funny? yes. Good? Not in the traditional sense of the word. Bad? In the best way possible.
Charlie:
This is awesome because the sun ate a comet and also we watched it. Which was pretty hard to do, technically. Comet Dives Into Sun: STEREO, SOHO Spacecraft Catch Craft
Ryan:
I FOUND this t-shirt and I thought it went well with my article this week. Wear it and look sexy.
Ben:
Hey look it’s an interview with the father of the modern zombie! And he talks about academics who waste time doing zombie-math. He doesn’t say anything about ending your name with a question mark though.
George A. Romero: “Who says zombies eat brains?”
Jacob:
This is an official military specification on how to make cookies and brownies for military rations. The story has been making rounds around some of the major news outlets this week, but this is the actual, official document that I pulled from our direct link to the government spec database. IT’S LEGIT.
Funny enough, it actually references another mil spec on how to make all forms of hard and soft candies as well. It’s pretty awesome.
LOST: Sci-fi or spiritualism?
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*Mild spoilers ahead*
“Any sufficiently defined magic is indistinguishable from science.” – Guy who should have helped write the LOST finale.
I’ve just finished the LOST finale. I was a few days late to the party but a long flight gave me time to give it a good watching. Yes, I watched it on a plane, which seems ironic. I wanted to talk about it, and have a little bit with friends 
but it’s really only going to be topical for another week or so at best so if I had anything to say I should say it now. I’ve watched the show weekly since season 2, haven’t always enjoyed it but hoped I was along for a ride that was going somewhere. It seems like most people would argue that was a mistake, and that it went nowhere worth going. I think they’re half right. Because there are another contingent of those who argue the finale worked. As the typical scientist, I’m gonna fall back on a spectrum and say that some things did work and others did not.
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PaleoSchedule
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Ok, it’s not actually Paleo at all, since we’re talking about what’s happening in the future. Regardless, we figured y’all might like to know what’s in store for ya each day as you visit our humble Paleocave. We’ve quite the lineup in store and we think you’ll enjoy our varied topics.
Monday:
Patrick or Charlie will write something and post it! It’ll be like a real blog! They’re gonna alternate each week starting next week. And it’s gonna be… probably pretty cool.
Tuesday:
If you listened to Episode 37 you heard us introduce our newest Paleopal Jacob! Tuesday’s Jacob will bringing the engineering in a way no Paleopal before him has or could. Show him your love and support, won’t you?
Wednesday:
Ryan is covering hump day. Probably a bad idea. He’s not really a morning person. Everyone remind him to write these before it gets too late on Tuesday or we’ll see some serious vitriol.
Thursday:
Who better to handle the day dedicated to the mighty Thor than Ben! Physically he is the largest of the Paleopals (we think, he’s never left his ice cave long enough to be measured) and he’ll be bringing his usual brand of silly science to bear here each week.
Friday:
Roundup! Quick, simple and to the point. We’ll each toss up something we think you’d like to know about. A cool story that didn’t make the show, a song we think you’d like, even a funny t-shirt. A few quick clicks and we’ll get you into the weekend going strong.
Something else you’d like to see here on the blog? Let us know! Drop a comment on this post or e-mail us at paleopals@sciencesortof.com
Trailers vs. the Film in the Sleep Deprived Male Brain
I have returned triumphant… sort of, from the 5th annual Secret Film Festival held at the Del Mar Theater in downtown Santa Cruz. Here’s the format. It starts at midnight on Saturday, and by noon Sunday you’ll have seen six films there’s almost no chance of you having seen before. You don’t know what the movies will be (it’s a secret) and other than the cryptic clue given right before the reel starts, you won’t know until the title screen. Besides the lost day it’s kind of a steal. Paleoposse members know we regularly talk trailers on the show, and so this year I was more prepared than usual to guess the movies as they came. A few of the movies I had seen the trailers for while researching potential previews for the segment, and the rest I often able to recognize just from seeing their poster on the apple trailers site. So in keeping with that theme I’d like to give you a brief run-down of each movie (spoiler-free), whether I’d seen the trailer before or have watched it since, and how the two match up. I may toss in a few words about my level of consciousness during each film just to add context to my increasingly nonsensical ramblings. Alright, let’s dive in!
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