Sciency Christmas
Top 5 random reflections on why Christmas and science are so great:
1. NORAD has a real-time Santa tracker and we watched his progress throughout the night.
2. If you're one of those scrooges who forwards around that annoying santa physics email, you deserve coal in your stocking, and not that shiny, beautiful, energy-packed anthracite, but that grimy fresh-from-the-swamp lignite stuff. But if you insist, you can check out this fermilab article which tried harder to be in the right spirit. Let's hear it for a relativistc Santa!
3. I got a subscription to American Scientist from my parents. In a previous post I expressed my concern over the poor quality of science reporting in the popular press, and I should point out that American Scientist is another bright spot : highly reputable, terrific reporting/news/analysis on all important things in science.
4. I got the cologne "Pi, by Givenchy" from my in-laws, which not only smells great but, according to Sephora "celebrates...[my] intelligence, courage, and contributions." Behold, the power of Pi.
5. I got a t-shirt from Jenn which says "Mmmm, Pi" and has a picture of the greek symbol pi with a bite taken out of it because she totally awesomely loves me. Want more? Check these out!. With logos like "Derivers wanted" how can you go wrong?