Catcher in the Pumpernickel

alwayslookagain: Cookie Dough Ice Cream Pizza

Fri, 17 May 2013 04:05:58 -0400

alwayslookagain:

Cookie Dough Ice Cream Pizza

On this week's edition of 'Texts from Bailey'

Sat, 11 May 2013 15:07:24 -0400

Me: I'm alone.
Bailey:
Matt: Sitting in a train station.
Bailey:
Matt: Next to someone whom I'm almost sure has consumption.
Bailey:
Matt: help
Bailey:
Matt: HELP
Bailey:
Matt:...help

"You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving..."

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 21:22:27 -0400

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You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.

And at one point you’d hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.

And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.

And you’ll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they’ll be comforted to know your energy’s still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you’re just less orderly. Amen.

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- Aaron Freeman

On this week’s edition of Texts from Bailey.

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 22:03:19 -0500

Bailey: have you hwars trditional armentian msic
Matt:
Bailey: parse it out im not retyping it
Matt:

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Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:58:48 -0500

For when you’re feeling melancholy.

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:53:01 -0500

For when you’re feeling melancholy.

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Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:43:59 -0500

Why my room is messy as shit

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 12:37:54 -0500

whatshouldcollegecallme:

Submitted by Jennifer D, New York University

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Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:21:52 -0500

jtotheizzoe: The human central processing unit, slice by...

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 01:52:55 -0500

jtotheizzoe:

The human central processing unit, slice by slice.

laboratoryequipment: Engineers Develop 3D Brain TissueBorrowing...

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 21:42:27 -0500

laboratoryequipment:

Engineers Develop 3D Brain Tissue

Borrowing from microfabrication techniques used in the semiconductor industry, MIT and Harvard Medical School (HMS) engineers have developed a simple and inexpensive way to create three-dimensional brain tissues in a lab dish.

The new technique yields tissue constructs that closely mimic the cellular composition of those in the living brain, allowing scientists to study how neurons form connections and to predict how cells from individual patients might respond to different drugs. The work also paves the way for developing bioengineered implants to replace damaged tissue for organ systems, according to the researchers.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2012/11/engineers-develop-3d-brain-tissue

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Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:03:26 -0500

matthen: Another mind-reading math trick! You can say what...

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:55:52 -0500

matthen:

Another mind-reading math trick! You can say what digit of a number the person scored out, only given what the other digits add up to. Why does it work? What’s special about the number 48?

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Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:54:53 -0500

20 Most Influential Scientists Living Today

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 13:57:42 -0500

20 Most Influential Scientists Living Today

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