The Life and Times of Ren... and then some

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Happy Shrove Tuesday , everyone! In honour of the Mardi Gras, senior physics lecturer, Dr Garry Tungate at Birmingham University has come up with the solution to toss the perfect pancake. ( ... ) The pancake, weighing 50g, should be flipped into the air at a speed of 10 miles per hour, ensuring that it will take less than 0.5 of a second to reach the top of its trajectory. At this point the pancake should have rotated 90 degrees at a rate of 0.55 revs per second. It then takes a further 0.45 seconds to make it back down to the pan, rotating a further 90 degrees on the way, making a total airtime of just nine-tenths of a second. The pancake will then hit the pan with a velocity of 4.5 metres per second. Failure to position the pan correctly will result in the pancake continuing its journey on to the floor, which it will hit at 14 miles per hour, just 1.1 seconds after its launch. Worse, it will land uncooked side down.( ... ) As a Freed-from-Catholicism Athiest, nothing says Hooray for ...

Cotton Candy has delighted carnival-goers and scientists for years and while the Fair Stompers have been able to combine their two loves for generations, Scientists unfortunately, have not. That is, until now... Scientists in New York have presented their preliminary work concerning cotton candy and tissue development in the online magazine Soft Matter* . The process would work is like this: "F irst , you pour a thick liquid chemical over a wad of cotton candy. Let the liquid solidify into a chunk, and put that in warm water to dissolve the candy. That leaves tiny channels where the strands of candy used to be. So you have a chunk of material with a network of fine channels within. Next, line these channels with cells to create artificial blood vessels. And seed the solid chunk with immature cells of whatever tissue you're trying to make. The block is biodegradable, and as it disappears, it will gradually be replaced by growing tissue. In the end, you get a piece of tissue pe...

Ladies and Gentlemen, the fate of the world rests in the hands of none other, than BIG star, Tom Hanks. ( ... ) The last face CERN will ever see. That's right, the Bosom Buddies star could be responsible for the end of the world as we know it! Okay, so I'm exaggerating. The odds of Tom Hanks actually destroying the world (out of character, that is) is frighteningly slim. The odds of the Large Hadron Collider malfunctioning and sucking all life as we know it into the depths of oblivion however, are slightly higher. Spot the Hadron While filming Angels and Demons , star Tom Hanks was approached by CERNS director of accelerators and technology Steve Myers and asked to be the official responsible for turning on the Large Hadron Collider scheduled for later this year. He said 'Yes.' of course. Though it's fair to say that I'm extremely jealous and wouldn't have blamed anyone for having said yes, part of me wonders if they would have asked him during the fi...

Dear Lady in my building, I'm so sorry that my 1998 Suzuki Swift got in the way of your boyfriend's mid-Millennial Mazda race car that found it's way into our parking lot this winter. It must be really stressful for him to leave a car of that caliber in a parking lot as welfare as ours. It must be especially strenuous for him considering the parking lot he's used to using belongs to the neighbouring apartment complex, and not the one you're living in. What I can't understand is how I could have put your visiting boyfriend out to the point where he'd have to park his car even closer to our building - I'm so inconsiderate. To think, that parking next to the door as opposed to next to the dumpster was just such an inconvenience - where was my head? For someone who pays for her parking spot, I should have had a better understanding for Grotto Parking-lot etiquette. And what's worse, is that I, in all my thoughtlessness, put you in a position to discomfor...

This has got to be the greatest thing I have ever stumbled upon via the interweb CHARLES DARWIN: LIVE IN CONCERT is the brainchild of Mr. Richard Milner: The Singing Dawrinian Scholar. Richard Milner is a historian and overall Darwin enthusiast who has a live show around songs he wrote detailing moments in Darwin's life, and his discoveries, of course. The songs are actually quite catchy and I am so inclined to go ahead and purchase his album. I'm not about to detail the numerous literary accomplishments of Ms. Milner, so I'll instead encourage you all to visit his website: DARWINLIVE.com