Fuck & Shit: evolutionary vestiges?

There are two situations in which humans are reduced to their most primal, animalistic state. One is during orgasm and the other is during defecation. Think about it. What are the two most embarrassing things you can imagine someone catching you in the middle of? When are you at a more physically vulnerable state? You …

Tree in a forest yada yada yada

So here’s an interesting phenomenon: when something so out of the ordinary happens to you and it doesn’t really feel like it actually happened until you tell someone about it. And the more people you relate the story to, the more it feels like it really did occur. You’re not quite satisfied that you know …

I do bite my thumb, sir.

At my work, we have this refrigerator in the IT support office, and one day someone brought in a set of magnetic words specially made for constructing Shakespearean insults. I suppose it was really only a matter of time until someone put together the following sentence: [CODPIECE] [SNAKE] [FIRE] [OFF] [FOUL] [MILK] [SUBSTANCE] [ON] [SAUCY] …

Engineering Physics II test – in medias res

But then, I had an epiphany—in an RCL circuit with alternating current, the current reaches a maximum value only at the resonance frequency. At the resonance frequency, the inductive reactance is equal to the capacitive reactance, which means that the total impedance of the circuit is just the resistance of the resistor. This also means …