Ig Nobel Prize nominations
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'Exciting' find for scientists watching paint dry
British scientists have been hard at work watching paint dry - and they claim the results are "exciting".The University of Surrey researchers identified a previously unknown mechanism that could enhance a wide range of products, from
Giant web probes spider's sense of vibration
In an Oregon laboratory, a two-metre spider web made of aluminium and rope is beginning to unlock how orb weavers pinpoint struggling prey.
Physicists studying the motion of sperm discover that the little swimmers flock together in tight groups if the surrounding fluid is "viscoelastic".
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Discourse reaches v1.0 prematurely
The internet is becoming faster each day. On meta.discourse.org scientists have researched the results of releasing their software approx. 10 years early. The results where devastating! Bugs, exploits, long loading times, you name it.
The head researcher
@codinghorror gave the following statement: "SORRY, NO LONGER WELCOME HERE!" Sadly his statement had a Body is invalid; try to be a little more descriptive, so we weren't able to get any statement out of him. We were banned from his software, though.
The effects of the research could be devastating for the software industry. Many big coorperations that previously tried to shorten their release cycles over the years have now taken an "Anti-Release"-stance, not releasing any bug-fixes that would help fixing the bugs Discourse has. (See the scroll up bug on the composer that Chrome refuses to fix)
Even industry favorite Markdown refuses to work properly with Discourse going as far as labeling it's markdown engine "common".
- Kuro (TDWTF)
This is definitly my nomination!
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@loose And this wasn't noticed when a tray of sand is shaken?
Scientists have been watching paint dry in experiments they say could improve the performance of everyday items, from sun screen to mobile phones.
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Old news but really funny.
Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations
(Note: this post is `just for fun;’ no premeds, doctors, researchers, or nobel laureates were meant to be offended in the writing of this post.) The bane of many American physics grad student…
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