Geeky Cupcake!

One of the best things about traveling to a science conference is seeing other people geek out about science. Everyone is running around the exhibit hall checking out cool science demonstrations, flooding around the booths of science books, and signing up for free giveaways because there's no way your school has funding to purchase a very cool, yet very expensive piece of equipment, such as an inflatable, transportable, planetarium. :-) Maybe, just maybe I'll win one for my school one of these years!

Geekiness knows no end at these conferences, as witnessed by this very cool and very geeky mini-cupcake.

Yes, that is an element cupcake! One of the booths I walked by had a large periodic table displayed and on each element was a cupcake with the element name on top!!! How could I possibly pass up one of these?!?!?! I took Dubnium, and it was delicious!!!

Dubnium is not naturally found on Earth but can be created in a lab. It doesn't last very long. It has a half-life of 32 hours, meaning that if you had a block of it, in 32 hours, half of it will have decayed into smaller elements. Yikes! What is it used for? I did a quick search, and apparently nothing! LOL! But it was a yummy cupcake and in this case, had a half life of just a few seconds!!!