Nature Chemistry | The Sceptical Chymist

Holy science, Batman!

It turns out that today is holy experiment day. Technically, this apparently means that we’re supposed to test whether God exists or will reward our desires (perhaps by praying for more places that serve yummy salsa on the East Coast, and then seeing if more appear?). However, a more fun (and nerdy) interpretation refers back to the original Batman series, in which Robin (Batman’s sidekick, for you uninitiated) would continually make weird comments of the format ‘Holy insert random word here, Batman!’ Being fairly young when this show was on TV (in reruns), I thought this (and the cheesy ‘Pow’ and ‘Blam’ graphics of the fight scenes) was the highlight of the show. So, ‘Holy experiment day, Batman!’ just screams out to me… 

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