This is a sign I saw just outside the door to my plane in the San Fransisco airport. Not only are they telling you that you’re going to die from standing there, but they won’t tell you from what or how!

(oh, and I’m back from vacation now so expect more posts…at least for a week before I head off to Europe for conference/vacation fun)

(adapted from Top 10 Reasons to Date an Entrepreneur)

1. Flexible Schedule: Aside from classes, anything goes. Lunch on Tuesday at 2pm? Sure. Dinner on Wednesday at 10pm? Why not! 3 week vacation to Bali? Okay, that’s trickier, but still doable!
2. Good Communication Skills: Classes don’t teach themselves
3. You can tell your friends you’re dating a doctor: Okay, so it’s not doctor in the MD sense, but it still counts!
4. You can go out with your friends and not worry about us: Hours of solitude as grad students means we know how to keep ourselves entertained
5. You can take us out to parties with you: Realize that academic conferences are 15% intellectual and 85% party. We’ve got PLENTY of practice with meeting new folks.
6. You’re on the cutting edge of science: Well maybe just the cutting edge of one small subset of a subset of science, but it still counts.
7. Bullshit Detector: “I swear, my printer broke 2 minutes before that assignment was due!” Yah, I don’t think so.
8. Not afraid to ask for directions: We spend our lives asking questions…this one is easy.
9. We actually care what you have to say: Other opinions count in science.
10. We’ll admit defeat: Scientific progress comes from disproving ideas, not proving them. Show us we’re wrong and we’ll love you for it.

This is a beautiful and mesmerizing kinetic sculpture.

[via Gizmodo]

This is possibly the best toy a dog could ever have.

I love how the dog only starts running once the mechanism pulls back the rubber band. Smart dog.

A new take on an old joke: