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In the second week of school, the society of physics students held a roughly annual welcome back party. As tradition dictates, we made our own ice cream with liquid nitrogen, 77 Kelvin, as a refrigerant and aerator. We spilled a little liquid nitrogen onto a table and watched the tiny little drops dance around. Someone asked, “Why does it do that?” That may have been the point of no return.

As is traditionally my role, I answered that the nitrogen evaporates at the surface of the table, which creates a cushion of air for the drop to sit on, and thermally insulates the drop, which minimizes further evaporation. That’s why a drop dances around without boiling, without touching the table, and without spreading out like a pool of water.

Then I continued. I mentioned that the very same principle makes it possible to dip one’s wet hand into molten lead, or drink liquid nitrogen without injury. I had done the latter several years earlier in a cryogenics lab, and remembered the physics of how it worked.

Naturally those around me were skeptical. “It will freeze your whole body. Remember Terminator 2?” But I was sure of myself. I had done it before, and I believed in the physics behind it. So I unhesitatingly poured myself a glass and took a shot. Simple. Swallow, blow smoke out my nose, impress everyone.

Within two seconds, I collapsed to the floor, unable to breathe or indeed do anything except feel intense pain. The ambulance arrived. The police arrived. The journey to the hospital. The attempt to explain to baffled ER staff how something like this could happen. Then I passed out.

Read more on the link above.

Whether it’s true or not I don’t know. I do know, however, that it’s entertaining.

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An Australian man with an extremely rare blood type has saved the lives of more than 2 million babies, including his own grandson, in his 56 years of blood donations, according to a published report.

James Harrison, 74, has made 984 blood donations that contain an antibody that stops babies from dying from Rhesus disease, a severe form of anemia, the Daily Mail reported.

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School run: Nine-year-old Daisy Mora makes the trip every day to get to lessons, with her five-year-old brother riding in a cloth bag

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I was reading about space disasters and came across something that I have never heard of before. Considering the scope of this disaster, I still don’t understand why there is so little information out there about it. I know that China tried to cover it up, but it seems that no one bought their casualty numbers anyway. Anyhow, I thought I would post it here for other people in case they haven’t heard of it.

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Video: http://tiny.cc/WHS8R
Raw Footage : http://tiny.cc/QoB1V

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WHoa!!! I thought this was going to be a satirical article from the Onion or something. Granted, I didn’t read the whole thing but still, whoa.

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Assisted suicide for anyone over 70 who has simply had enough of life is being considered in Holland

Non-doctors would be trained to administer a lethal potion to elderly people who ‘consider their lives complete’.
The radical move would be a world first and push the boundaries even further in the country that first legalised euthanasia.

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Stolen from Stacie’s FB.

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Haha, so I was talking with friends last night and was clued in that Gavin was on Creative Loafing’s Lust List back in 04. Took me a little bit but I found it!

Not seeing the wind in the hair shot that was talked about last night though =(

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Gavin is one of our mall hotties. Not only is he pleasing to our eyes, his English accent also makes him pleasing to our ears. He picked it up in England, too. How about that!

EDIT: Link now works.

EDIT: Ok, fuck creative loafing’s website. Links decide to work and not work whenever they choose. Just search for “Gavin” or “Adam” on their search bar if the link doesn’t work.

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Cheers to ma boy & DJ sensei Adam for making it on Creative Loafing’s Lust List for 2010!

Adam is a big, dorky kid — who happens to be crazy adorable. And hot. He’s a bizarre dreamer (literally) who gets entirely too wrapped up in a book. Ladies, be prepared: You must love comics, fantasy flicks and Prince. It would also help if you resembled a cartoon character. You should be open to watching him school others in games of kickball. And it wouldn’t hurt if you were down with making love atop water towers. Oh, and that hair — it’s all his.

Lust List 2010: http://tiny.cc/lust615

Adam’s article: http://tiny.cc/adam528

EDIT: Adam’s article is down for some reason…and only his, doh!

EDIT #2: Link working again.

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