I'm reminded of the Isaac Asimov quote:

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries is not 'EUREKA' but 'hmm, that's funny.'"  I'm also reminded of the Higgs boson.  It was predicted to exist around 50 years ago and the Large Hadron Collider was built in no small measure to experimentally finally detect the existence of the Higgs particle.  That's roughly $7.5 billion spent to detect a particle the decays into lighter particles in some ridiculously short period of time - like 1/10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000th of a second.

Here is one of my favorite FB pages:

I fucking love science

I'm reminded of the Isaac Asimov quote:

 

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries is not 'EUREKA' but 'hmm, that's funny.'"  I'm also reminded of the Higgs boson.  It was predicted to exist around 50 years ago and the Large Hadron Collider was built in no small measure to experimentally finally detect the existence of the Higgs particle.  That's roughly $7.5 billion spent to detect a particle the decays into lighter particles in some ridiculously short period of time - like 1/10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000th of a second.

 

Here is one of my favorite FB pages:

 

I fucking love science

Each particle that they detected cost $62.

I'm reminded of the Isaac Asimov quote:

 

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries is not 'EUREKA' but 'hmm, that's funny.'"  I'm also reminded of the Higgs boson.  It was predicted to exist around 50 years ago and the Large Hadron Collider was built in no small measure to experimentally finally detect the existence of the Higgs particle.  That's roughly $7.5 billion spent to detect a particle the decays into lighter particles in some ridiculously short period of time - like 1/10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000th of a second.

 

Here is one of my favorite FB pages:

 

I fucking love science

IFLS is mostly pirated stuff.  Hey, at least she's started to actually give credit now. 

 

I love that page a lot. IFLS and George Takei are easily the best things on my Facebook feed.

+1 on both. I am often tempted to just hide all my friends & just read these. They are also responsible for 95% of the humorous photos/graphics I send to people (or post here). Oh that and graphjam.com

LTH's Asimov quote reminds me of a recent IFLS post. which I guess I don't need to repost here since you have all seen it. It was series of popular internet memes representing the various stages of scientific experiments, how we think it is vs. how it actually is.

I also like the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science but they post too much stuff.  Find one or, at most, two really good things a day.  That's all I want in my newsfeed.  Otherwise, I just unlike the business or organization.

I like IFLS and Takei, but I don't subscribe; I just let my FB friends filter them for me.

NPR stole my joke!

Joke all you want, but "watching paint dry" is my job.  Really.

 

This link is to an article about my workplace.  Don't feel obligated to read it -- the only thing worse than watching paint dry is reading about it.  (I am not quoted or in any of the photographs.)

 

http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/al_heavens/20120403_At_Dow_institute__their_business_is_watching_paint_dry.html

Riveting.  lol

Actually, paints and coatings are a huge market, especially from a corrosion standpoint, so I get the reason behind the studies.   But still not the most exciting thing in the world. :P