Discover Magazine: Stupid Science Word of the Month

Discover Magazine | Stupid Science Word of the Month

• Stupid Science Word of the Month : Stupid Science Word of the Month: Bi-George
  Pressed for time, a chemist picks a random name out of the blue: "George." When he heated George in the presence of rhodium, two of them stuck together, forming a new molecule that he named—you guessed it—"Bi-George."
  
  
• Stupid Science Word of the Month : Stupid Science Word of the Month: Unparticle
  \un-pär-ti-cl\ n. (2007) A particle whose mass is unrelated to its energy.
  
  
• Stupid Science Word of the Month : Stupid Science Word of the Month: Barn
  A physics joke that bombed. Atomically.
  
  
• Stupid Science Word of the Month : Stupid Science Word of the Month: Shmoo
  Shmoos are essential: without them, we would have neither bread nor beer.
  
  
• Stupid Science Word of the Month
  Montypythonoides riversleighensis, n., an extinct Australian snake