Category: curiosity

The best ten Seinfeld episodes

Several years ago, there was this series “Seinfeld”. I did not watch it from the beginning, but near the end I got more and more drawn to it.
One day it was going to be over. I saw the final program where they had a trial and were convicted due to all their sins.

There was a contest where people chose the best ten episodes, and they were aired one after another one evening when I did not going to have time to view them. I asked a friend to record the episodes in a VCR, and the friend recorded them.

The episodes were aired in reverse order of their rankings, so the best episode was the last one to be aired.
The video recording was cut off in middle of 9th episode (the 2nd best one). So I missed the best two episodes.

Few years later the best episode was broadcasted, and I enjoyed the story of how Elaine caused the Nazi soup establishment to be closed. It remained to view the missing part of the 2nd best one – The Contest. Today I decided I must at least read its transcript. Quickly I located it in Seinfeld Lists – The Contest.

Ohh-Uhh, now I can have a good night’s sleep [sic].

Neuroscience is now fashionable due to Ariel Sharon's brain former influence

Neuroscience Tutorial – an illustrated guide to the essential basics of clinical neuroscience.
Neurosciences on the Internet.
There are also other related Web sites.

Jun. 11, 2012 update:  the link to neuroscience tutorial has died.  Adie Harrington suggests the following resource:  http://www.surgicaltechnologist.net/resources/guide-to-brain-anatomy/.

Did Superman, as a baby, escape from a black hole?

While Lois Gresh and Robert Weinberg did not say so explicitly, there is an hint in their The Science of Superman that when he was launched by his biological parents to space, he had to pass through an event horizon.

To put things in context, Larry Niven already speculated about Superman in his Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex article, but from a biological point of view.

Nandor's Exhaustive Chemical Words Pages

Few days ago I wrote about pangrams and today I saw in Slashdot another way to play with words – build them from chemical symbols. I think it would have been more interesting if chemical formulae and chemical reactions could be used rather than just chemical symbols. However I do not see any competitor to Perl Poetry.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

The subject sentence is an example of a pangram.

Sentences containing every letter of the alphabet are called “pangrams”, or “holalphabetic sentences”.

URLs which cover the subject and provide more examples of pangrams: