Two quick things noticed on Cynical-C.
First, very much up the old Cosmic Variance alley, a list of the Ten Most Beautiful Physics Experiments ever. I have a funny feeling we’ve linked to it before, but it’s worth a visit. I would have voted for Archimedes taking a bath over Galileo dropping balls from the Leaning Tower of Pisa, which after all probably never happened. (He did, however, amuse himself during sermons at the next-door cathedral by using his pulse to time the chandelier swinging overhead, thereby discovering that the period of a pendulum is independent of its amplitude.)
Our fan base will verify that we here at CV are utterly beholden to the dictates of political correctness, so this other link is somewhat outside our normal fare: but it is perhaps the best blonde joke ever.
January 9th, 2006 at 12:00 am
I love it. I had that same one written in my high school chemistry textbook.
January 9th, 2006 at 12:25 am
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January 9th, 2006 at 12:33 am
Sean, your post represents quite a coincidence, given the post I’ve been preparing…. up in as short time….. -cvj
January 9th, 2006 at 12:35 am
That’s one really awesome joke. Reminds me of an Asimov story about the creation of humour. It was called Joker or something like that I think.
None of Faraday’s experiments?
January 9th, 2006 at 12:51 am
I would have included the photo-electric effect. Gave Einstein a Nobel and verifed quantum mechanics. I guess I would have rated it above Young’s Double slit.
January 9th, 2006 at 2:40 am
But it is a bit irritating, I was in the mood for a laugh, not a click fest (and it took me longer than was comfortable to figure it out
). Ok, this isn’t a joke, and you don’t have to click to get it, but it is about blondes:
“I don’t mind when people call me a dumb blonde, because I aint dumb and I aint blonde.”
- Dolly Parton
January 9th, 2006 at 5:53 am
In a similar vein it was irritating if you suspected it at once. (Compounded with still having to check one click further!) Alas, correct timing is essential to most jokes.
January 9th, 2006 at 7:39 am
Best Blonde Joke
For a change from the usual mix of climate-science-and-Japanese-trivia, I was going to blog about number theory, but I noticed this wonderful blonde joke via Cosmic Variance which is much more fun.
January 9th, 2006 at 12:03 pm
I owe up. I clicked through 3 links before it hits me….
January 9th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
What? No mention of Michelson – Morley on the list?
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I look for “smart blonde” jokes and send them around to my Caucasian-American friends (all of whom coincidentally happen to be natural blondes who are extremely smart).
January 9th, 2006 at 5:26 pm
Ah, the lj set has done it’s work well.
February 28th, 2006 at 2:52 pm
[...] I don’t usually post one liner entries but, this is a really good blond joke, via Cosmic Variance. [...]