1. This story from CNN on ridiculous Higgs-Boson jokes. I know they are totally geeky but they made me smile. My favorite: "The Higgs Boson walks into a Catholic Church. Priest says "What are you doing here?" HB says "You can't have mass without me." Ha!
2. Cookie Monster singing "Share it, Maybe." Sure it gets a little repetitive after the first minute or so, but, hey, so does the real song. It's super clever and adorable and how can you not love anything made by Jim Henson Studios?
3. Let me start out by saying that until earlier in the week, I had no real idea what an "Infographic" was. But now that I've started hitting Pinterest pretty hard, I have a pretty good idea. They seem to be everywhere. I even found a book on Amazon about creating them and using them in presentations (that I've naturally pinned to my super creatively titled board, Work Stuff). As someone in training and as a visual learner, I can't believe I've never really used or seen them before. But they are a super cool and focused way to get information across. As someone who endlessly edits periods and typos ALL day LONG, this one is my favorite. Its only downside is that it's so small that I can't enlarge it and hang it on my desk. I'm thinking I'm going to need to add these to my toolbox...
4. This recipe for Strawberry Popsicles. I bought popsicle molds in the beginning of the summer with allusions of cooling off with fresh, healthy popsicles every week of the scorching summer. This weekend, they finally came out of the box. I just whipped them up and I can only hope they will be as tasty as I think they will be.
5. As much as I hate to admit it: Pinterest is one of my faves this week. You need only look here to see that I've been attacking it and have found WAY too many good ideas to keep me busy. My plan is to spend the day scrapping tomorrow, working on a few of my fun finds. I have to start sometime or I'll be crafting and baking until I'm 90 at this rate!
Let's make this perfectly clear: I claim to have no actual knowledge of astrophysics. In fact, I never even took Physics in high school or college. Pretty much everything I know about the subject I've learned from watching Eureka, Stargate or The Big Bang Theory. That being said, I am totally engrossed in the news coming out of Geneva this week.
Earlier this week, at the European Organization of Nuclear Research(CERN), the largest particle-physics lab in the world, scientists shared that they were 99% sure they discovered the Higgs-Boson particle. The Higgs-Boson is also known as the "God particle". As far as I can deduce (I told you I wasn't a physicist), this particle, which scientists have been searching for for decades, proves that matter exists. If this is in fact the Higgs-Boson, then all other theories of the universe will remain true. Clear as mud, right? A few years ago when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) made the news at CERN, I was equally impressed. I can't even fathom what it's like to work at a facility where conducting an experiment could result in the end of the world (According to myth, the LHC was trying to recreate the Big Bang and when they succeeded the world could have ended just like it did during the first bang). How fascinating is that?! Of course, it would have been a whole lot less fascinating had the world actually ended, I'm sure.
I'm not even sure why it's so captivating. I think it's one of those things that's so astronomically hard to understand that you (well at least, I) can't help being intrigued. I have so many questions flying through my head. Matter exists since we're here: why do we need a particle to prove it? How does one build a machine that's so large, to smash together things that are so small? How in God's name do you isolate things that are so small? How do you decide to study one of the most confusing subjects in the world? And most importantly: How in the world do you know you've found what you're looking for when you find it??
Maybe, instead of looking for Cary Grant-ish, I should be looking for Sheldon Cooper-ish...
