Note carefully: that’s a pressure cooker.
One of my prouder moments as a teacher was when I managed to catch a student with updog last year.
I laughed out loud at this one.
I imagine that the Fermi temperature has decreased significantly over the past 69 years.
Smoot got there first.
Oh, and why is Broca’s area in cubic meters? And is that surface or cross-section?
If it was square meters it would be pretty close to the average surface area of a male human - I suspect a typo
He types in that script? Wow, Douglas Hofstadter redux!
Ok, a “writing error”
Smoot inspired me for when I was “pledge master”1. One item was to find the distance from the Bell Tower to the Capitol Building (about a mile) in digbies. They left that one blank. That blew my mind - not only would that make a great story2, but I would have accepted any reasonable sounding number - I certainly wasn’t going to check their work.
1 - I didn’t haze. I take a very dim view of hazing. Everything was strictly voluntary. If an Associate Member felt uncomfortable about anything they were to tell me, and I would take the appropriate action. One guy told me that his big brother told him he had to consume a bottle of JD. Once I’d caught wind of it, I had the big brother in front of the Alumni Board the next day. In short, I wanted the whole Associate Period to be a positive experience.
2 - Which is why you have scavenger hunts in the first place.
This is a good place to mention that, in his last Proposition, Euclid proved that there were five and only five regular solids… but his proof was flawed. The definition he was using for “regular solids” didn’t specify that every vertex had to have the same number of edges, and so the triangular bipyramid and the pentagonal bipyramid also qualify.
(as well as not requiring things like that the solids be convex, or that the faces be non-intersecting, but even if you take those as implicit, the bipyramids are still perfectly cromulent “geometric solids”)
Where do “Meryl Streep (disambiguation)”, “Seagull (disambiguation)”, and “Meryl Streep (Seagull) (disambiguation)” fall on the chart?
I’d put the first two after “Seagull” but before “Meryl Streep (seagull)”, in the order you gave. I’d put the last one after Meryl Streep (seagull) but before Meryl Streep Seagull Incident.
Now where would you put “Meryl Streep (seagull incident)”?
I had to google to find out who Alex Mack is. Obviously not an American football player with that name, but rather the main character in this TV show. An accident has given the kid superpowers including “the ability to dissolve into a mobile puddle of water.”
I recognized the intended reference, which is embarrassing, because I’m decades older than Randall (but way more interested in even bad SF on TV than I am in football)