Why settle for the least bad one when you can vote for a party that will end the government hush-up on extraterrestials, outlaw chemtrails, and make perpetuum mobile energy available for everyone? [see SOPN.nl]

The 'you change the system by measuring it' is called the observer effect, and it has to do with wave function collapse and not with uncertainty.

Regarding the HUP: you can derive that without referring to measurement apparatuses, by just looking at the momentum and position operators. Let position x and momentum p each have standard deviation dx and dp, respectively, then by the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality

        dx dp >= |cov(x,p)|.

The covariance of x and p is

        cov(x,p) = E[(x-E[x])(p-E[p])],

where E[A] is the expected value of operator A, and as the commutator of operators x and p is [x,p]=i hbar,

        dx dp >= |E[(x-E[x])(p-E[p])]| = |E[xp]-E[px]|/2 = hbar/2,

which is the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
 

... I'll just aim for an Ig Nobel Prize instead.

"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'"

Taking only the obvious steps:
World of Warcraft > Role-playing game > Role-playing > Roleplay (disambiguation) > Sexual roleplay > Human sexual behaviour > Human sexuality > Virginity ("Losing one's virginity" redirects to that page.)

I would say that the invention of the sun valve (Gustaf Dalen, Nobel prize for physics in 1912) was a pure engineering achievement.

When I was in (Dutch) secondary school, textbooks used to be around €50, so that’s a little cheaper than university but still way over $25. Secondary school students can usually rent their books from the school here instead of having to buy them themselves, so that brings the total cost down to about €10 per book for the student.

I can’t remember any of my textbooks costing around $25. I think $100 (€75) is the mean price.

Of course, this only validates their argument: if you are willing to spend $100 on a textbook, spending $25 on a pc for education is not a big hurdle.

> (it 'only' weighs 46 million kilograms)

No it doesnâ(TM)t. Kilograms are a unit of mass, not of weight.

After all, he lived in a white house for a few years.

I wonder which they'll allow first when they run out of 'old' pantheons: planet Xena or planet Jesus. No troll intended, just wondering.