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Mobius Bagel

Just in case you wanted to know how to make one.

A thousand times yes

Baby's first physics book.

Surf's up in Cornwall!

These pictures are pretty amazing.  h/t to my old roommate Rich via FaceBook.

The Sun is...

... a Miasma of Incandescent Plasma!

Or so I learned at a They Might Be Giants concert this week.

If you don't have their new album yet, you're really missing out.

Happy Halloween!

I heard this on WDVX this week. Any song that involves a ukulele and lyrics about zombies is a must-listen in my book.  (Mmmm.... brains!)

Alex and the Bears

From Alex's baptism:

And all four together:

Robbery Fail

There has been a spate of armed robberies in the area around CMU during the last two weeks (something to give me a few more gray hairs).  However, this one, left the robbers arrested and greatly astonished.

The article in the CMU student paper has more technical details.

Rare Isotope Rap

The next entry in the 21st century answer to our beloved Singing Science records: Rare Isotope Rap. With subtitles.

Oh, and They Might Be Giants have determined that "The sun is a mass of incandescent gas" is incorrect; rather, "The sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma" (explanation here). Yeah, okay, but I like the old song better.

If you remember playing "Oregon Trail"...

...then you might want to check out "The Great Flu" (warning: it's a bandwidth hog). No opportunity to name your oxen Marx and Lenin, like one of Laura's classmates, but it has some interesting features. 

New Photos of Alex

To celebrate his one-month birthday, I took a bazillion pictures of Alex. But since newborns pretty much look the same after the first, you know, FIFTY photos, I picked out the few I liked the best to post. You can see the pictures full-screen here.