No? Yes? Huh?
Well, I guess an earthquake is better than a Black Hole or a Time Travelling Bird(he poops on your car before its even there!)

The Boston Herald reports that a burglar broke into the Boston-area home of Harvard prof. Roy Glauber and, among other things, swiped his Nobel prize in physics! Egad.
Glauber may be best known to Boston-area folks as the man who sweeps detritus off the stage of the annual Ig Nobel awards. I don’t think any award [...]

I didn’t realize that Dartmouth College has a Foucault pendulum - a swinging pendulum over 70 feet high, with  a bob weighing 260 pounds, that takes 34.7 hours to complete its rotation around a compass on the floor and thus [...]

Temperatures are supposed to be in the 50s all week and hardly even freezing at night, so vague hopes that ski areas down in our neck of New Hampshire might open by Thanksgiving are disappearing. (You can’t make snow at that temperature, no matter how good your equipment.)
So let’s take solace in looking at this [...]

One of the sweeping perjoratives online is “fanboy,” a term that implies you have turned into a mush-headed goofball about somebody or something, incapable of making intelligent observations or telling good from bad.
Gotta admit, I’m a Steven Chu fanboy. If he ever comes to New England again, I’m there with the autograph book in hand!
The [...]

I’ve been a collector of magnets for many years. Cruising through Harbor Freight, Radio Shack or even Tractor Supply, I’m always attracted to any unusual magnets that might create some interesting experiment. My large band saw is covered with all types of magnets. I’m always harvesting one for temporary hold downs for jigs and fixtures. [...]

Here’s another link to math and physics humor building on the “Don’t drink and Derive” form.
http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/199810/zero-gravity.cfm

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jan09/7127
I love the header on this article.
( Blacklight Power says it’s developing a revolutionary energy source–and it won’t let the laws of physics stand in its way )

From UNH news service:
When the Large Hadron Collider started up, a University of New Hampshire undergraduate will be among the 7,000 scientists worldwide to claim credit for its creation. Austin Purves, a senior physics major from Silver Spring, Md., worked on ATLAS, one of two general-purpose detectors of the LHC and, [...]