Scientists in the "News"

Thank you, Nerve.com - we lab geeks get a bad rap from the general public in re our hotness and freakiness. They should only go to a departmental retreat or a particularly wild conference. Ha! But maybe we should not tell everyone how hot lab coats are, or else the pool of scientists will be flooded and I will never get a job.

And here's a great news in brief from The Onion:

Goddamn Findings Fail To Support Researcher's Hypothesis
April 5, 2006

LANCASTER, CA—Test data on superconductivity in aligned-crystal bismuth-mercury ceramics failed to support physicist Charles Antonini's carefully-fucking-conceived hypothesis, he told the journal Nature yesterday. "It seems the goddamn math is correct, so I obviously must not have taken other motherfucking factors into account," said Antonini, who had dedicated the past nine years of his life to "solving the cunt of an obstacle to miniature supercomputers." An unexpurgated account of Antonini's studies in cryomatrix crystallography will be published in the journal Cock-Sucking Science.