Freshmeat App of the Day – Wheel ‘O Yum

The name and the image caught my attention when looking through RSS. Given that finding a place we can all eat ends up being difficult at times, something like this might be quite helpful.

And I, for one, welcome the arrival of our Wheel ‘O Yum food dictators!

Funny Grading Stories

I came across this on Science Blogs.

A question from yesterday’s final exam, paraphrased slightly:

Element X decays into Element Y with a half-life of 30 minutes. You are given a sample containing three times as many atoms of Y as X. If the initial sample was pure X, how long ago was it prepared?

One student wrote:

It seems like a lifetime ago…