• LSU
• Creighton
• Ohio
• Iowa
• UTEP

Fucking UTEP.

yet another tale of fire tragedy: alberto's pizza on P street, one of my favorite lunchtime spots, apparently burned down yesterday. goddammit. where else am i going to get a huge, $3 slice of thincrust cheese pizza that i actually want to eat while sober?

Via Michael, and now Slashdot, check out New Scientist's Thirteen Things That Do Not Make Sense. It's a fascinating read, although it overstates the evidence for homeopathy and cold fusion, and makes the placebo effect sound more mysterious than it is by pretending that biochemistry and psychology are neatly separable. There's a brief but (I think) interesting tidbit from my undergrad days after the cut.

Anyway, go have a read. I won't pretend to understand the scientific ramifications of each of the potential resolutions to these mysteries. But personally, I read "mystery in physics" as "there's still a chance for hoverboards".