The Sunday Struggle #5

Bored today? You could...

- Go outside (keep reading ;)

- Jot down any weird questions that pop up in your head during the long workweek and submit them to the Mad Scientist's Network (preferably no questions in the Biophysics field or they may ask me to answer them and I'm on holidays next week ;). Here's a good example to get your creative juices going: How could/would you burp in Zero Gravity?

- Take a moment to appreciate some homegrown architecture & design with a high drool-factor: Glenn Sestig Architects. I would however, NOT recommend a visit to the Glenn Sestig Restaurant (Kortedagsteeg, Ghent) as the food's disproportionately overpriced in terms of its quality. Or to quote a Dutch proverb: "Schoenmaker blijf bij je leest". Especially when one does the latter so exceedingly well.

- Or for the PhD Students who've not collected enough data of their own yet: Play with other people's data and create your own weird conclusions.

- Roll your eyes at a bit of excellent geek humor ;)

- You could bookmark 3191 : Two female photographers, living 3191 miles apart, share 1 photo blog.

- Plan your next underground party

- Or help me track down the parameters of The Awesome Floating Bed: I have searched everywhere for more specifics. As a PhD in Magnetism (well... kind of) I would really like to know the weight of the bed and the actual magnetic material (I suspect it's a composite)... so I could spend my own Sunday struggling through calculations of the magnetic field strengths needed to repel the bed from the base-magnet. I seriously doubt it's safe to have credit cards, pacemakers or mobile phones nearby, but man does it look impressive!! *grin*

- Or, to round it all off, we could indulge in a bit of Civil Engineer-bashing (an all-time favorite amongst us "cool" physicists;) .... The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster

-Cartoons courtesy of XkCd (thanks Oirish!)-