Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- I love Alex Trebek. I'm praying for him to beat the long odds. He's the best!

- In other medical news - Billionaire diamond trader dies during penis enlargement surgery.

- The physics still hiding in the Higgs Boson. Going to have to read this a second time (for comprehension reasons)

- Clint Eastwood's Code (Via Execupundit)

- Cool - the moment of impact for a bullet

- Well that's one way to look at Brexit I guess

- Israeli company can produce 5,000 liters of clean drinking water from just the air and a good electrical supply. The cost per liter is estimated at just $.02-04 per liter!

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Heh heh - true under maritime law your vessel may be subject to safety inspection at any time.

- Its been 15-years since Firefly was cancelled.

- Interesting - the Higgs boson and the top quark finally spotted together during experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.

- Speaking of quantum physics - it seems the more we learn the more we understand how little we know. I think the human race is far from an understanding of how things actually work.

- Heh heh - Jets rookie QB Sam Darnold is the new Chuck Norris. Maybe Sam Darnold can explain how string theory works?

- Reminder that the secret to financial success isn't rocket science (or quantum physics)

- Impressive - maybe Tesla really is a battery company that also sells cars.

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

The Red Sox Magic Number is now 8... God bless Fisher House. How can any politician say they support the troops while allowing military death benefits to go unpaid - especially when things like the Congressional gym remain open?... Love Nathan Fillion - it's great that he Tweeted this GIF of himself... Was Clint Eastwood right when he described President Obama as an empty chair? How do you negotiate with an empty chair?... Sorry Giants fans but this is funny... A Sequester in Ancient Rome was a man who held a bribe for a client until a politician delivered upon his promise. The more things change the more things remain the same... Cool simplified explanation of what the Higgs-Boson is all about... Is Larry Bird really so cheap that he has to resort to stealing other people's Chicken McNuggets?... Ha ha - this is awesome. Gotta love hockey...

Higgs Boson Discovered

Very big news out of CERN - the Higgs boson has been discovered - or I guess more correctly - the Higgs boson has been scientifically detected. This is very big news for science but probably my last chance to repeat this joke:

The Higgs boson walks into a bar. Bartender says, "What's the matter?" "Exactly."”

EDIT: Stephen Hawking's reaction to the news is beyond awesome.