I Just Read About That…

SOUNDTRACK: MAC LETHAL-“You’re vs. Your” (2012).

Mac Lethal is a YouTube sensation (he did the pancakes video that I liked quite a bit).  And, yes, he does actually have albums for sale.  He raps really fast (so fast that I wondered if it was sped up–I don’t believe so).  I am 100% behind the sentiment of this song (possessive vs contractions, this is something you used to know).

I’m a grammar freak, so it bothers me when I see these common mistakes made.  It’s nice to hear a song about it (even if it’s not a terribly catchy song or anything).

I like his name dropping and his lecture is pretty effective.  I’m a little confused by the big dick reference/joke at the end of the song…it’s not really relevant.  But his fast tongue is really impressive.  As for his singing….mmm, stick to rapping.

I like the T-shirt!

[READ: May 15, 2012] Science News Letter

I’ve mentioned before when my company sends out links to articles that are interesting or cool.  This is the second time a link to a Science News Letter has gone out.  I swear if I had time, I would love to read all of these.  I wonder how often it was published?

This letter has only two articles in it–one from Physics and one from Archaeology.

The Archaeology one is called “Find Sacred Kitten in Bronze Cat Coffin.”  And indeed, two metallurgy experts were cleaning a bronze cat (which had “bronze disease”) and inside of it they found the bones of a fetal cat.  This was one of the first times that actual bones were discovered in one of these cat idols.  There’s even a (kind of creepy) picture of the bronze statue with the far creepier caption: Cat Coffin.

The Physics article is headlined: Fifth Dimension is New Realm Entered by Professor Einstein”  What?  How cool is that… “Professor Einstein!”  Einstein died in 1955, so it’s not weird that he’d be in a Science Letter.  But still!  Einstein talking about his current theories?!  The subtitle is “Celebrating Sixtieth Birthday, Scientist Wants New Dimension To Account for Electro-Magnetic Effects.”

And really that’s about all I understood of it.  My favorite line comes at the end: “As would be expected, the new theory is enormously complex.”  For indeed, Einstein wants to have a discussion that centers around the physical reality of a fifth dimension, not just a theoretical fifth dimension.  The article explains, “In his five-dimensional theory, space is closed along a vector indicating the fifth coordinate.”  That may be daunting, but I do love this sentence:

“We have, therefore, to take the fifth dimension seriously although we are not encouraged to do so by plain experience,” explains Prof. Einstein.

The fifth dimension is supposed to account for properties of the electromagnetic field  which were not accounted for in relativity.

<crickets>

Let’s get back to the fun part of the article.  Listen to how Einstein is described: “Thus the man who puzzled millions of people when he introduced the fourth dimension in his famous theory of relativity has gone one step further.”  It’s practically like a gossip column!

I must find more of these letters.  If you have JSTOR, you can read this one here.