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Mandelbrot Fractal Bear
A mutant fractal teddy bear, called Mandelbrot, brought into this world a few weeks ago by Captain Mouse
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Physics Cartoon : Quantum Fluctuations
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Not Christmas Holidays but Newton Festival : Happy Newton, everybody!
On December 25th
a savior was born.
He revealed eternal truth
bringing joy to millions.
He astonished the world
with his command over nature.
He changed history for ever!
Even if you are an atheist or a Bright, you don’t want to destroy the holiday season! So Richard Dawkins suggested that the birthday of Sir Isaac Newton, the founder of modern physics and mathematics, and arguably the greatest scientist of all time, could be used as an alternate excuse for a winter holiday!
Depending on the calendar you follow and how purist you want to be, Newton was born either on 25th December or 4th January.
Perfect! Who needs poinsettia, when you can have red apples? I’d rather teach kids about F=ma than tell them about a fat guy flying from the north pole in a sleigh being pulled by reindeers! I’d rather have a (dwarf) tree, dropping apples on my head, than have a Christmas tree shedding needles and being a fire hazard! Instead of fake snow, every house will have a real rainbow created using a prism! Instead of playing with candy canes, kids will be peering through telescope! I like the sound of that!
So, as suggested Richard Dawkins and by Olivia Judson of NYTimes, I support renaming Christmas holidays as Newton’s birthday festival.
In honor of Newton’s Birthday festival, I therefore propose the following song, to be sung to the tune of “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” For brevity, I include only the final verse. All together now!
On the tenth day of Newton,
My true love gave to me,
Ten drops of genius,
Nine silver co-oins,
Eight circling planets,
Seven shades of li-ight,
Six counterfeiters,
Cal-Cu-Lus!
Four telescopes,
Three Laws of Motion,
Two awful feuds,
And the discovery of gravity!
Happy Newton, everybody!
Just as an aside note; when I was thinking of a date to select for Talk Like a Physicist Day, I did consider using Newton’s birthdate as a potential TLP date, but rejected it precisely because it fell on the Christmas day. So I am glad to get a second chance.
Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in night;
God said “Let Newton be” and all was light.
Newton Christmas Cards are designed by John Powers and can be purchased here. The happy Newton Birthday cards are from Irregular Goods.
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An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar…
An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one orders a beer. The second orders half a beer. The third, a quarter of a beer. The bartender says “You’re all idiots”, and pours two beers.
Funny addition by CadMonkey at StumbleUpon
…then they asked for separate tabs…”An infinite number of mathematicians get thrown out of a bar”
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Smear campaign in the Physics Department
The latest smear: “He pals around with Theorists”
At least, they didn’t say “He pals around with string theorists”, or even worse, “He pals around with cosmologists”.
There is a crisis going on, there is enough negativity; we don’t have time for dark energy in the election.
Source PhD Comics
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NewYorker Cartoon-off : Katz and Munroe draw cartoons related to String Theory
Farley Katz, who draws for New Yorker magazine, ran into xkcd.com’s Randall Munroe in a grocery store. He challenged Munroe to a cartoon-off — each cartoonist to produce drawings about the Internet as envisioned by the elderly, String Theory, 1999, and one’s favorite animal eating one’s favorite food.
These are the Cartoons that each of them created for the String Theory topic:
Katz:
Munroe:
Munroe was the clear winner here! Katz drawing is not even amusing! (failed pun on “not even wrong”).
Munroe is the master of cracking “inside jokes” that only a person in the field will find funny and this is no exception.
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