mefi quote, no. 50 ~ natural sciences

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It's like a mid-life crisis that works.
posted by Stonestock Relentless at 6:37 AM on January 30

They smother the invading hornets in a cocoon of living honey bees and cook the hornets to death with their massed bodies.
posted by Auden at 5:23 PM on January 18

I, for one, would welcome the tender ministrations and benevolent hegemony of an Ueberhybrid with octuple armage, nut-storing cheekage, and the desire and ability to reduce our growing mountains of garbage.
posted by rob511 at 4:53 PM PST on January 13

An observer on a given M&M would see all of the other M&Ms redshifted (assuming he had some sort of telescope that could see through donut). This is great news to anyone who likes to eat nothing but red M&Ms.
posted by Eideteker at 3:45 PM PST on March 6

I think the solution probably involves being hung by your heels from a spring-scale with your head in a vat of liquefied heads to achieve neutral head buoyancy,
posted by dersins at 6:18 PM PST on April 22

Now units of mass can be first class citizens again, based on fundamental constants, like time and current (or charge) are, rather than based on a lump of platinum/iridium in Paris.
posted by bonehead at 7:53 AM PST on March 2

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