STEM Epicureans
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Steve Jobs subsisted primarily on dates, almonds, and this item he ate so often "friends remember him, at times, having a sunset-orange hue."
What are carrots?
There is a myth that physics says they shouldn’t be able to fly (not true!).
What are bees?
The first American woman in space and the first known LGBTQ astronaut. Her Ph.D. thesis focused on X-Ray interactions in the ISM.
Who is Sally Ride?
Christiaan Huygens would have been proud when a lander successfully touched down here in 2005.
What is Titan?
1) a massive stellar core whose makeup consists primarily of uncharged, degenerate baryons
and
2) a famous franchise whose original trilogy featured the likes of Billy Dee Williams, Sir Alec Guiness, and Karie Fisher.
Neutron Star Wars
Pythagoras famously detested this food, forbade his students from consuming it, and (as legend goes) died when he was ambushed but refused to escape by running through a field of them.
What are beans?
These runts are not quite stars.
What are brown dwarfs?
This former German chancellor studied quantum chemistry before moving into politics. Her government was known for its strong role in the European Union during the 2000s and 2010s.
Who is Angela Merkel?
You'll find this population of asteroids at the L4 and L5 Lagrange Points of the Jupiter-sun system.
What are the Trojans?
1) a normalized unit that quantifies the translational inertia of the nearest star
and
2) a beloved sci-fi video game trilogy that follows the character of Commander Shepard, and whose follow-up 2017 installment was subtitled Andromeda
Solar Mass Effect
This genius headed the Glutton Club at Oxford whose members met weekly to eat "strange flesh" as they called it, including rare owls, armadillos (which they claimed "taste like duck"), iguanas, and giant tortoises.
Who is Charles Darwin?
He has his own constant (and unfortunately committed suicide in Italy!).
Who is Boltzmann?
This rock guitarist began his PhD entitled “A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud” in 1971. He wasn’t feeling Under Pressure, and didn’t finish until 2007.
Who is Brian May?
An extremely prominent crater found in the south central region of the moon's disk, featuring spectacular rays that extend over 1,000 miles away from its central basin.
What is Tycho?
1) an astronomically approved term for the true rotation period of Earth
and
2) completion of the following Beetles lyric:
She was a _____________
A one way ticket, yeah
It took me so long to find out
And I found out
Sidereal Day Tripper
Thomas Edison used this food item as an interviewing tool: if an interviewee seasoned it with salt or pepper before tasting it, he dismissed them outright for "making assumptions without empirical evidence."
What is soup?
This describes the magnetic field generated by a constant current.
What is the Biot-Savart Law?
This American cartoonist’s most famous work is "a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language."
Who is Randall Munroe?
To witness a supernova in the year 1054 (and the birth of the Crab Nebula), you'd have looked toward this region of the sky.
What is Taurus?
1) an electrical circuit used to measure an unknown electrical resistance by balancing the voltages across its two legs
and
2) if you want to grab a slice to go, you can visit one of their two Missoula locations - on either Higgins or Brooks
Wheatstone Bridge Pizza
This revolutionary thinker was particularly fond of strawberries with whipped cream, and was also known for enjoying the odd combination of mushrooms and honey, possibly while penning his book The World As I See It.
Who is Albert Einstein?
A molecule consisting of 60 carbon atoms in a spherical shape.
What is a buckyball? (or buckminsterfullerene)
This former Colorado Rockies pitcher was a physics major at the same university where Dr. Good got her Ph.D.
Who is Jeff Francis?
This is what you derive when taking the first derivative of the gravitational force with respect to radial distance, r.
What is the tidal force?
1) how General Relativity would refer to your local coordinate system if it were devoid of curvature, and perfectly Euclidean
and
2) a David Bowie song about a fictional astronaut named Tom
Flat Space Oddity