Nerds Make Science Fun!

That was too awesome not to lead the post with.

Anyway, you might recognize that picture, since it comes from a list of seven movies with bad science.

Link to the site’s source (which you can also find by clicking the picture).

I also plan on picking apart some famous show or whatever when I get off my lazy rear find the time out of my busy schedule to do so.

Thought I’d give you guys an update regarding the First Church of Mathematics (praise be to the integers). We’re modeling it on the dogma of the Catholic Church, and we are currently developing posts for clergy, sermon structures, the whole nine yards.

So anyway, here’s another Commandment:

“Honor thy parentheses, for they keep your work neat”.

William

And it’s got a see-through skull.

Yeah…

In this crapsack economy, you’ll need all the help you can get with your tech gadgets.

I found this in a link to the New York Times, but here’s the gist of the tips

• Your credit card will scan better if you wrap a black plastic bag around it first.
• Your cell phone loses charge faster if it’s hot, so keep it in/on your purse or belt, or in the hotel fridge overnight if you’re stuck without a charger.
• Your car’s remote door opener gets better range if you hold the key ring to your chin.
• To get more use from an ink cartridge, use a hair dryer on it after it’s dry to loosen the ink.
• If you dropped your phone in water, turn it off, then stick it in a bag of raw rice.
• To get extra range for your wi-fi network, you can stick a handmade parabolic reflector behind your router to direct the signal in one direction. Also increases privacy.
• Ditch the fancy CD cleaner fluid. Some alcohol (vodka, mouthwash, maybe rubbing alcohol) will work just fine and give you a handyman look.
• Sticking some paper over the camera flash can help tone it down. Also try cellophane for colors or different kinds of paper for different dimming.
• Your hard drive will crash if you’re running windows. If the usual nerd tricks don’t work, stick it in the freezer overnight, then bring it back to room temperature and hope for the best. This is a LAST RESORT, so don’t try it until it’s utterly hopeless to try anything else

-T

Sorry, it’s been a busy week. This may be old news to some, but I have recently discovered Kent Hovind believes mathematics is a religion. In response to this, Tony and I are currently planning the First Church of Mathematics, a project intent on satirizing this idea, and the idea that science is a religion. So please, pay attention and check back for more later.

William

EDIT: and as a sneak preview, here’s one (possibly) of the X commandments.

“Thou shalt not add before thou multiplies, nor shalt thou subtract before thou divides, unless thy operations are ordered by parentheses.”

Well, apparently, kissing someone increases their sex desire because you give them testosterone  through your saliva.

Kissing Chemistry

Also, early Happy St. Valentine’s Day.

William

Brain Juice Games

This is the homepage of Brain Juice Games.

Their main title is Super Energy Apocalypse, where the apocalypse was caused by lack of energy, and mankind has to rebuild civilization.

The catch is, the pollution has created mutant zombies, which will attack you every night, get stronger with high smog, and eat garbage to grow (and you don’t want them anywhere near your nuclear waste).

So it boils down to accumulating lots of energy and keeping the environment clean so the zombies won’t overrun you by night.

After you’ve finished the campaign, try doing some of the preset challenges.

-T

This summary covers the basic history of evolution, evidence for evolution, and most factors of natural selection.

Evolution Summary