Making a poster for an upcoming conference this summer?
Here are some hints I got from a recent workshop:
-Less is more [don't write an essay]
-Colour is a must [black & white is boring]
-Creativity [throw in a cool picture or quote]
-Font size [don't need a magnifying glass]
-Images/plots should be the focus
-Delineate sections with titles or borders [organization/structure]
-Would you stop to read it if you were at a conference?
Feel free to add your suggestions/comments!
Why is an astronaut like a football player?
They both want touchdowns!
Q. What's the most popular snack on Mars?
A. Marshmallows.
How do you know that Saturn is married more than once? Because he has lots of rings.
How does Jupiter hold up his trousers? With an asteroid belt.
The Heineken Uncertainty Principle says "You can never be sure how many beers you had last night."
Here's a pretty cool video demonstrating an effect known as coalescence cascade.
The original video and article can be found here
What do the Russians, fertilizer, and supernovae have in common?
They are all part of numerous 'blasts' that occurred for which there is no concrete explanation.
See also the interesting BANG involving pigs!
The world's most sensitive scale has detected a yoctogram [10^-24 grams]. These aren't ordinary scales, but actually nanotubes that vibrate at specific frequencies dependent on the mass of the particle/molecule.
Applications include diagnosing health conditions and distinguishing elements in chemical samples.
LINK: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21651-worlds-most-sensitive-scales-dete...
Even though its past, I found this video pretty funny.
Did anyone do/see something in their classes around April Fools?
Feel free to share your pranks!
A bartender asked Rene Descartes if he would like another beer. He responded "I think not"
Q: What did one quantum physicist say when he wanted to fight another quantum physicist?
A: Let me atom.
What was the name of the first satellite to orbit the Earth? The moon.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends on your frame of reference.
Q: Why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip?
A: To get to the same side.
It's not faster than light, but still pretty cool. And don't you think that the receiver looks rather like the stargate in Stargate SG-1?
Remember the 'Powers of Ten' from wayyy back? Well this is updated and interactive with eerie music.
Scroll bar goes from Planck Length to Universe Scale-along with captions.
Back in the day, when Quantum Mechanics was just getting started, Einstein suggested a thought experiment that would disprove the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal, and with that show Quantum Mechanics was inconsistent. Which it could have done if Bohr hadn't responded in turn with his own thought experiment to win thought experiment round 1 and to keep quantum mechanics alive. Today's physicists have taken a second look at Einstein's argument, and say he could have been correct after all. Check this all out here.
