The Vig

*When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Phil Gervais.
*Phil Gervais does not sleep. He waits.
*When Phil Gervais does a push-up, he isn’t lifting himself up, he’s pushing the Earth down.
*Phil Gervais’ hand is the only hand that can beat a Royal Flush.
*Phil Gervais has never blinked in his entire [...]

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How cool is this?
This is a spectacular example of a phenomenon called gravitational lensing. It’s caused by the distortion of space-time by massive objects. While formulating his general theory of relativity, Albert Einstein realized that because of this warping, light won’t always travel across the universe in straight lines. For example, if one galaxy lies [...]

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Remember this Econ 101 lesson from a few months back?  I get a similar feeling when I read about Bank of America’s buy-out of Countrywide this morning.  B of A poured about $2 billion into the sub-prime lender late last summer and has since seen the value of their investment plunge to about $560 million.  [...]

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The Beavers men’s basketball team drew an announced crowd of 4,017 for their game against Stanford last night.  The Corvallis Gazette-Times’ Brooks Hatch says it was probably less than that.
Some quick, cursory inspection of the OSU media guide determined that’s the smallest crowd for a current Pac-10 opponent since 3,532 showd up for a [...]

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