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Craig Ferguson needs to understand that atheists are assaulted DAILY, nearly hourly by religious connotations. Also, many atheists are NOT like he describes; in fact I hate conventions and so forth as they seem extremely corny.

As does meeting in mass in a large building every Sunday...

(Hint: I think many of those atheists are proud anti-theists...)

>> ^wraith:

That was my point. Fluids are incompressible.
Unfortunately, those bad analogies seem to stick in the minds of the physics lay-person. Just think of the mother of bad analogies: Schroedinger's Cat. The particle may be in a undecided state between "life" or "death", yet the cat certainly isn't. It's either alive and very pissed or dead as a doornail.
When explaining science, avoid analogies whenever possible or clearly mark them as such and point out their deficiencies.


I think explaining qubits does a better job for first time quantum beginners. It also makes them see the potential for awesome. BUT, it is hard to explain--plainly. I blame my college professors and books. Scientific American has an awesome article for the "lay"-man for qubits.

I get blank stares with entanglement.

>> ^wraith:

Did she just say that you CAN compress water into a smaller space?


That was a bad analogy; unless you're a physics person. More like throwing a pebble into a pond and yet watch it hit the ground in the pond with no waves. The material structure and atomic setup allow for photons to hit one side without disturbing "the pond" (a.k.a. the atoms) nearly at all; meanwhile, it it is re-emitted as was on, where, or at the point scientists wish it--hence invisibility.

Look up NIMs or what they say in the video. Meta-materials are awesome.

(And no on the water, not unless you put it under pressure first. It's hard to shrink atoms -- density however ...)

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Now I can't stop singing it....

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Ooouuellette,
gentille Ouellette,
Ooouuellette,
je te plumerai.

>> ^Godless:

It's spelled "Ouellette" with 2 L's, 2 T's, 3 E's and OOOOOOOUUUU-LA-LA!!!
I'm allowed, being of Duck-Barking French Canadian stock myself...

Shows my bias ... me likee boys.


>> ^Retroboy:

Title misleads somewhat: Jennifer does a sweet job of making science writing fun, interesting and sexy all by herself.
Craig's just the icing.

Ooouuellette,
gentille Ouellette,
Ooouuellette,
je te plumerai.

>> ^Godless:

It's spelled "Ouellette" with 2 L's, 2 T's, 3 E's and OOOOOOOUUUU-LA-LA!!!
I'm allowed, being of Duck-Barking French Canadian stock myself...

Hey! It got published!

Downvote me any time!

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*promote

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>> ^EDD:

>> ^ant:
EDD, what's Reddit URL for this?

@ant http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/hg96k/craig_f
erguson_unable_to_hold_it_during_an/


Thank you. Upvoted.

>> ^ant:

EDD, what's Reddit URL for this?


@ant http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/hg96k/craig_ferguson_unable_to_hold_it_during_an/

>> ^Porksandwich:

This is great. When did they hook it up so Josh isn't actually pre-recorded? I'm months behind on my Craig Ferguson show but it so far it was like 8 or so fixed responses for the night from what I'd seen.


I watch Craig almost nightly, that's the first time they've done this. Pulled it off expertly, too.
Doubt it will be a nightly thing, at least in the long term. Although ad libbed, it seems they set up the bit with the emails being all Geoff-themed.