Science Badges

The geeky girl in me loves this kind of stuff. The clever folks at the Science Creative Quarterly, out of the University of British Columbia have come up a bunch of science badges. Their official title is: ORDER OF THE SCIENCE SCOUTS OF EXEMPLARY REPUTE AND ABOVE AVERAGE PHYSIQUE.

If you are interested in science, how many are you qualified for? Here's a few that I qualify for, along with their explanation from the site:

The “talking science” badge. Required for all members. Assumes the recipient conducts himself/herself in such a manner as to talk science whenever he/she gets the chance. Not easily fazed by looks of disinterest from friends or the act of “zoning out” by well intentioned loved ones.

The “has frozen stuff just to see what happens” badge (LEVEL II) In which the recipient has frozen something in dry ice for the sake of scientific curiosity.

The “has frozen stuff just to see what happens” badge (LEVEL III) In which the recipient has frozen something in liquid nitrogen for the sake of scientific curiosity.

The “cloner” badge. In which the recipient has cloned something or other. Rules to a drinking game concerning this badge will be forthcoming.

The “sexing up science” badge. In which the recipient has had experience with things such as selective breeding, crossing, mate selection, prokaryotic conjugation, fertility studies, STD related microbiology, and/or any other acceptable interpretation of the badge.

The “destroyer of quackery” badge. In which the recipient never ever backs down from an argument that pits sound science over quackery.

And there are a couple that I wish I qualified for....

The “I work with way too much radioactivity, and yet still no discernible superpowers yet” badge.…Although not for lack of trying…

The “my degree inadvertently makes me competent in fixing household appliances” badge. Not necessarily a good thing.

I originally saw this on a great blog, "Not Exactly Rocket Science"