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April 26, 2005

Otherwise known as the Strategic Petroleum Jelly Reserve

If, in the course of a worldwide oil price climb, you find yourself saddled with an underlubricated infant, now you know where to go:

"The new [neutrino] experiment at Fermilab, called MiniBooNE, is looking for [neutrino oscillation] but with a different setup, firing neutrinos into a spherical tank containing 250,000 gallons of baby oil."

("Tiny, Plentiful and Really Hard to Catch," by Kenneth Chang, The New York Times, April 26, 2005.)
Posted by Brenden at April 26, 2005 10:07 PM


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