Common Bonds
May,
North,
greased
What are poles?
A scale that's played rapidly, or what you don't want to get in your pantyhose
What is a run?
If a trucker says he has "bubble trouble", he may have a flat one of these
What is a tire?
This law relates the electric flux through a closed surface to the charge enclosed within that surface.
What is Gauss's Law?
Joseph has two of these furry friends at home
What are cats?
Gold,
hay,
cat-scratch
What is fever?
The Biwa is a 4-stringed lute from this country also known for its Biwa pearls
What is Japan?
The 2 main types of these are hot air & gas
What are balloons?
This is the name of the principle stating that the position and momentum of a particle cannot both be precisely known at the same time.
What is Heisenberg's uncertainty principle?
Joseph had samples from these two Apollo missions
What are 12 and 16?
Fish,
detective,
ghost
What are stories?
This woodwind is sometimes called a blackstick
What is a clarinet?
Guinness says the smallest of these one-wheeled vehicles ever ridden was just 8 inches high
What is a unicycle?
This is the quantum mechanical property of particles that gives rise to the Pauli Exclusion Principle and explains the structure of the periodic table.
What is electron spin?
This is the lab Joseph is joining at WHOI for his postdoc.
Who is Collin Ward?
Beer,
truck,
rose
What are gardens?
Its tune may have come from a song with a similar title, "Britannia, The Pride Of The Ocean"
What is "Columbia, The Gem Of The Ocean"?
San Franciscans know that BART is an acronym for this
What is Bay Area Rapid Transport?
This model of membrane structure describes the plasma membrane as a flexible layer made of lipid molecules interspersed with proteins.
What is the fluid mosaic model?
This is the state that Joseph got married in, also known for it's mountainous landscape which includes the Rocky Mountain National Park.
What is Colorado?
Beach,
gum,
masked
What are balls?
"Moritat" was the original German title of this song from "The Threepenny Opera"
What is "Mack The Knife"?
Vehicle at the center of the "Quadriga of Victory", the statue atop Berlin's Brandenburg Gate
What is a Chariot?
This is the process by which gene frequencies in a population change due to random sampling effects, most often in small populations.
What is genetic drift?
This is the office that Joseph spent the most cumulative time in during his PhD (other than his own, probably).
What is Martha's office?