Posted in Humor, Science on Apr 25th, 2007
This is just too funny not to pass on …
This is a letter from a reader in Hot Springs, Arkansas, printed by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette:
The letter reads, “You may have noticed that March of this year was particularly hot. As a matter of fact, I understand that it was the hottest March since the beginning […]
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Posted in Humor, National security on May 4th, 2005
The Department of Homeland Security doesn’t always get it quite right.
They have a web page with advice for ordinary citizens caught up in a terrorist nuclear blast.
Entitled, “Be Informed: Nuclear Blast,” the page supposes that you on the same city block as a nuclear detonation, and advises, “Consider if you can get out of the […]
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Posted in Humor, Science on Oct 1st, 2004
From an account of this year’s Ig Nobel Awards in Cambridge:
The Ig Nobel award in Chemistry went to the Coca-Cola Company of Great Britain, “for using advanced technology to convert liquid from the River Thames into Dasani, a transparent form of water, which for precautionary reasons has been made unavailable to customers.”
No one from the […]
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