{"id":5759,"date":"2013-09-16T10:48:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T15:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/?p=5759"},"modified":"2013-09-16T10:48:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T15:48:28","slug":"we-did-mad-lib-abstracts-for-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=5759","title":{"rendered":"We Did Mad Lib Abstracts for Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/08\/help-us-hold-a-diy-science-zone-at-geekgirlcon-and-make-me-fix-prometheus\/\">fundraising to hold a DIY Science Zone at GeekGirlCon<\/a>, we promised to perform <a href=\"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/thirtyseven\/2013\/08\/28\/help-fund-the-diy-science-zone-at-geekgirlcon\/\">acts of whimsy<\/a> as we hit funding milestones. We&#8217;ve passed $3,000, which is amazing and means we&#8217;re halfway to our goal. (Feel free to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&#038;hosted_button_id=ZSERH9HSDGMKN\">donate money at this link<\/a> to help us reach it, by the way!)<\/p>\n<p>It also means that we&#8217;re starting to perform our Acts of Whimsy. We&#8217;d passed $2,000 by Friday, so as promised, we played Mad Libs for science. Twice! We chose to mutilate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/298\/5601\/2179.short\">one of my old abstracts<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/Synthesis_of_Heterocycles_Through_a_Ster.html?id=NaXdSAAACAAJ\">Torrey Stenmark&#8217;s thesis<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/noisyastronomer.com\/\">Nicole &#8220;Noisy Astronomer&#8221; Gugliucci<\/a> gathered us all into a Google+ hangout last Friday and we were off to the races.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9lZA17NDWDc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The event veered quickly in a non-work-safe direction, as you can tell from what happened to my abstract.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWe report on the observation of a highly degenerate, strongly <u>smarmy<\/u> Fermi gas of <u>chairs<\/u>. Fermionic lithium-6 atoms in a <u>kind<\/u> trap are evaporatively <u>escaped<\/u> to degeneracy using a <u>taxidermy<\/u> to induce strong, resonant <u>pony<\/u>. Upon <u>lovingly<\/u> releasing the <u>hair<\/u> from the trap, the gas is observed to run <u>rapidly<\/u> in the <u>blue<\/u> direction while remaining nearly <u>big-assed<\/u> in the axial direction. We interpret the expansion <u>bronies<\/u> in terms of <u>tart<\/u> superfluid and collisional <u>tarts<\/u>. For the data taken at the longest evaporation <u>penises<\/u>, we find that <u>wooly<\/u> hydrodynamics does not provide a <u>smelly<\/u> explanation, whereas <u>vagina<\/u> is plausible.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Vagina is plausible indeed. What about Torrey&#8217;s? It involved dudebros, palladium-catalyzed douche balloon reactions, and oxygen-containing Corgi. Watch the video for more, or grab <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/10472674\/Uncategorizable\/science_madlibs_1-2.pdf\">the PDF of the results<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since we&#8217;ve broken $3,000 since Friday, we&#8217;ll do another Mad Lib abstract. If you want to join in the fun later this week <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/noisyastronomer\">follow @NoisyAstronomer for the details<\/a>. It also means that I have to re-write <i>Prometheus<\/i> for sock puppets. On the plus side, <a href=\"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/thirtyseven\/2013\/09\/14\/ill-be-listening-to-nickelback-for-science\/\">Dr. Rubidium has to listen to Nickelback<\/a>, so there&#8217;s a silver lining to the socks.<\/p>\n<p>To sum up: Sockmetheus! Dr. Rubidium suffers through Nickelback! Another chance for someone&#8217;s abstract to remain big-assed in the axial direction! Best of all, we&#8217;re going to get to spread the joy of science to GeekGirlCon attendees. We&#8217;re halfway to our fundraising goal. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&#038;hosted_button_id=ZSERH9HSDGMKN\">Care to help us reach it?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our fundraising to hold a DIY Science Zone at GeekGirlCon, we promised to perform acts of whimsy as we hit funding milestones. We&#8217;ve passed $3,000, which is amazing and means we&#8217;re halfway to our goal. (Feel free to donate money at this link to help us reach it, by the way!) 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