March for Science!

Yesterday, I joined hundreds of thousands of people to march for science.

Something to think about

Since the sun is also moving, this is a better representation of how the planets revolve around the sun. pic.twitter.com/2GkP4rLSSO

— Roberto A. González (@robertoglezcano) March 4, 2017

Scientific failures can be pretty great.

When scientists leave the lab and go out in the "real" work, it's called fieldwork. And right now, scientists are sharing their field work mistakes on Twitter. And it's pretty great!

Thread here, background info here.

Moral: Don't let anyone named Bart in your covered wagon

Dang, the Oregon Trail game (1990!) can still teach us so much!

Hmmm...that's actually pretty good advice!

*puts down big rock, sits in front of piano*

Then I realize something: “3.8 billion years of evolution and I still can't play the piano!”

Via.

This is the hardest tongue-twister in the world!

Scientists at MIT have established that what follows is the most difficult English sentence to say aloud. Do you want to give it a shot?

Okay, let's do this—ten times in a row!

“Pad kid poured curd pulled cod”

(I can get to about five times, then always choke!)

This is what happens when paleontologists bake cakes!

Via.

Nice Abstract

In research circles, an “abstract” is a summary or statement of the contents of a article. And this might be the shortest abstract ever published!

BTW, this is the 1,000th post on this blog. Yay.
Abstract via BoingBoing.