Physics band names

• Ultraviolet Catastrophe (punk)
• Tip Tilt ('80s hip-hop)
• The Millikan Oil Drop Experiment (twee indie group out of Brooklyn)
• Zustandssumme (pre-reunification West German metal)
• Simple Harmonic Oscillator (barbershop quartet)
• Spaghettification (jam band)
• Strange Charm (I think they played at Lilith Fair?)

Lyric of the day: Unit conversion edition

Kris Allen, Live Like We're Dying:

We only got
86,400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell 'em that we love 'em
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we're dying

Familiarity with this song will be a boon to freshman astronomy majors. Now we just need a song about 202,265 arcseconds in a radian.

Sentence of the day: His inner Pittsburgher, perhaps

In the New York Times:

Something — his inner Pittsburgher, perhaps — keeps his focus not on the “big” but on the “absurd.”

I'll take this almond love

An oldie but goodie.

Ke$ha, Star Trek, and Kesha

By now, you should have seen the Ke$ha Star Trek/TiK ToK mashup:

But did you know that “Kesha” was a character on Deep Space 9?