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<i>Carbon is “the molecular slut of the table of elements</i> .

Well, good morning, you sexy, sexy carbon-based lifeform, you. ;)

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Other websites have recaps of "Mad Men" and "Game of Thrones." What is this place—Nerdistan?

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Ha! Me too. F = gm¹m²/r²

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It reminds me of a letter opener with a bulge at one end.

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Law? Screw that, it's just a <a href="http:\/\/thehappyscientist.com\/science-experiment\/gravity-theory-or-law" target="_blank">theory</a>! Like evolution! Why doesn't de Grasse Tyson teach the controversy?

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#1 Thanks to Rebecca for resolving my commenting problem. #2 "Science as entertainment" isn't so common on commercial tv and Neil deGrasse Tyson is probably one of the best at handling it. #3 So maybe something on the Axiom of Choice?

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No electron falls into a lower orbit without Jeebus knowing about it.

-Prof. Matthew

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My daughter collects those things. (Yeah, another SciChick.) One of her pals at school thought it was hysterical to "give her <a href="http:\/\/www.giantmicrobes.com\/us\/products\/herpes.html" target="_blank">herpes </a>".

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Neutrinos are atheist ... no mass, ever.

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Over-compensating, perhaps, for the fact that it's on Fox.

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win

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"Masses attract with a force inversely proportional to the square of the distance", vs. "God is holding everything down." Both theories can explain everything.

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My hope is they are just testing the waters; if the show gets high ratings they'll kick it up a notch next season. My fear is that they think this is how smrt Amercians are now, and they are probably (R)-right.

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