Complementarity and ‘America the Beautiful’

Mouseover text: Colorado is working to develop coherent amber waves, which would allow them to finally destroy Kansas and Nebraska with a devastating but majestic grain laser.

It’s a physics joke. If you don’t get it, look up wave-particle duality and the Uncertainty Principle, which only exists as a Wikipedia entry when you are looking at it.

Quiz on Monday.

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Anthropomorphic names are OK; consciousness, not so much

xkcd - development

Mouseover text: Funding was quickly restored to the NHC and the APA was taken back off hurricane forecast duty.

It’s an Educational Psychology joke (if such things really exist).

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Oh, snap!

xkcd AI.png

The mouseover text says: “And they both react poorly to showers.”

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The next Congressional sex scandal?

xkcd-3D printer

After all, why just send boring cellphone pix?

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As t –> ∞, teaching physics –> teaching math

xkcd-teaching physics

But only as a first approximation …

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Gotta keep up with the lingo, man

xkcd-2009 called

In case you can’t see the mouseover text, it says, “2017 called, but I couldn’t understand what they were saying over all the screams.”

Another classic from xkcd.com

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When you wish upon a (non-main sequence) star …

xkcd-Stingray Nebula

Don’t you just hate it when the star you wish on explodes?

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