June 2011
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Jun 30th
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“It’s ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes....”
– Marvin Minsky
Jun 30th
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Jun 30th
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Jun 30th
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Jun 30th
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Jun 30th
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Jun 30th
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werivalourcreation asked: I love this blog! I don't necessarily understand everything coming my way, but, boy, do I love learning. I often will do a little research after a particularly interesting post makes its way to my dash. Thanks a lot!
Jun 29th
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isleshire asked: What are those structures? Why is the path that is traced in circles? Traces on the outside of a cone? What is spinning off of those traces? Why the abrupt turn and then roughly straight?
Jun 29th
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Jun 29th
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“The Doctoral student Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider asked Einstein in 1919 how he...”
– Albert Einstein
Jun 28th
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Jun 28th
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Jun 28th
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Jun 27th
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Jun 27th
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Jun 27th
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“Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of...”
– Roland Barthes
Jun 27th
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Jun 26th
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Jun 26th
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Jun 23rd
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MNI ICBM color composite human brain volumes
(WOW! This was sent by Mark Dow from the University of Oregon Lewis Center for Neuroimaging, creator of one of my favourites sites around the web. Thank you very much, I’m impressed. Oh! and a good method to celebrate the entry number one thousand in Science is Beauty) False color composite volumes are constructed from MRI of human brains, with each contrast represented in separate color...
Jun 23rd
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Jun 21st
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“It is one Thing, to show a Man that he is in an Error, and another, to put him...”
– John Locke
Jun 17th
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Jun 17th
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Just Math Tutorials →
Good idea for people with problems with the basic on mathematics: video lessons by a math teacher
Jun 16th
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Jun 15th
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Jun 14th
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Jun 12th
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“[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is...”
– Isidor Isaac Rabi
Jun 12th
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Jun 12th
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Jun 9th
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Jun 8th
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Jun 8th
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Jun 6th
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“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by...”
– Paul Dirac
Jun 6th
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Jun 6th
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Jun 6th
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PHYSICS OF TENNIS →
More on Tennis (Nadal is going to win again) The behaviour of racquets and balls is governed mainly by Newton’s three Laws of Tennis. These laws are fully explained in our book The Physics and Technology of Tennis. The following is a summary of a few topics of interest to give you a flavour of how physics relates to sport and to the real world of everyday objects.
Jun 5th
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WatchWatch
For people not interested in the spectacular tennis match between Nadal and Federer, here is a show equally awesome: An intimate tour… in 1080p… of Earth’s most impressive landscapes… as captured by astronauts with their digital cameras. Dr. Justin Wilkinson from NASA’s astronaut team describes the special places that spacemen focus on whenever they get a moment.
Jun 5th
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Was life really better in the past? The Rational Optimist says “we’re all kings now” because of exchange and specialisation. Via The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley’s On this times of pesimism, and when some people try sell us we’re going inevitably to the end of the planet, and false ecology which attempting lead us towards a new dark age, it’s not a bad...
Jun 1st
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Jun 1st
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“I know that this defies the law of gravity, but, you see, I never studied law.”
– Bugs Bunny
Jun 1st
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Jun 1st
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Jun 1st
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