More stuff to like....

From the comments:

- A subscription to Science because of the articles, but mostly because it impresses fellow scientists.

- A subscription to Scientific American to find out what's going on in science outside their field.

- A subscription to a small technical journal to gain early access to specialty terms other scientists in the field haven't learned about yet.

-Hewlett Packard scientific calculators

What, no love for TI's??? In any case, how about a subscription to Physical Review Letters if you are a biologist? Math is hard, and, impressive! Of course, Annual Reviews seems to combine both the first two elements in the list....

Distribution of Stuff Likeness

If you don't get this, you aren't a nerd

Proposition I:
Stuff White People Like ∩ Stuff Scientists Like = ∅

Proposition II:
Stuff Scientists Like ⊂ Stuff White People Like

Which one is true? Which one is false?

Stuff Scientists Like, take 2

Some interesting submissions from the comments of my other weblog:

- Collared shirts. Except for computer scientists.

- The passive voice, often with bizarre action verbs at the end of the sentence. The eradication of this regretable habit has not yet been effected.

- Data, or anything that can be presented as such with minimal massaging.

- Memorizing umpteen digits of the number Pi.

- Modeling real life phenomena with mathematical models.

- Knowing instantly what geometric shape you get from an equation like: x² + y² = 8

- Knowing that Quark isn't just a character on Star Trek.

- Seeing the Greek Capital-Sigma and thinking of addition. [Actually, I think it is more accurate to not use the term "addition," but rather "summation"]

Stuff Scientists Like

List #1

List #2