"Believe it or not — this was in the ’60s — we used to hustle on over the border for health care that we would receive in Whitehorse. I remember my brother, he burned his ankle in some little kid accident thing and my parents had to put him on a train and rush him over to Whitehorse, and I think, isn’t that kind of ironic now. Zooming over the border, getting health care from Canada."
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Palin draws fire for link to Canadian health care
(via generaltau)
Link to this post • 11:13 am • 10 March 2010 • view comments
"… … zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"
— From my treatise about Corey Haim
Link to this post • 9:57 am • 10 March 2010 • view comments
4 trillion degrees Celsius
kottke:
Using the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, particle physicists have succeeded in creating quark-gluon plasma, the temperature of which is 4 trillion degrees Celsius (about 250,000 times hotter than the center of the Sun). The plasma is believed to be the state the universe was in a microsecond after its creation.
The departure from normal physics manifested itself in the apparent ability of the briefly freed quarks to tell right from left. That breaks one of the fundamental laws of nature, known as parity, which requires that the laws of physics remain unchanged if we view nature in a mirror.
This happened in bubbles smaller than the nucleus of an atom, which lasted only a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a second. But in these bubbles were “hints of profound physics,” in the words of Steven Vigdor, associate director for nuclear and particle physics at Brookhaven. Very similar symmetry-breaking bubbles, at an earlier period in the universe, are believed to have been responsible for breaking the balance between matter and its opposite antimatter and leaving the universe with a preponderance of matter.
Link to this post • 4:31 pm • 9 March 2010 • 1 note • view comments
"Smell like a man, man – with Old Spice body washes! After all, what man wants to smell like a lady when he can smell like jet fighters and punching?"
— Real thing presented as real by real people at a real business
Link to this post • 3:20 pm • 9 March 2010 • view comments
She & Him – “In The Sun” Video
During the intro scene, as the camera pans up a slim young man, I thought to myself “If this is Joseph Gordon Levitt, I’m going to stab a pencil in my eye” which is weird because I didn’t hate 500 Days of Summer that much … I must be in an anti-cute mood.
(via @ryancorazza)
Link to this post • 11:10 am • 9 March 2010 • view comments
