CNN reports that Night Owls (people who prefer to be active at night to the morning) can be kind of out of it in the morning but actually get stronger at night, while Early Birds (morning people) have relatively constant abilities over the course of the day. I made a graph, as I am wont [...]
I’ve always had a problem with the scientist’s definition of Man being the only animal to use tools. Of course, that theory has been by and large debunked with evidence of chimps and other primates making and using tools, but this, well, this is something else altogether.
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City Math [May 22, 2009]
Neil Gaiman once wrote, “Cities are not people. But, like people, cities have their own personalities: in some cases one city has many different personalities — there are a dozen Londons, a crowd of different New Yorks.” This was his introduction to a piece written for Sim City 2000 (don’t recognize it? Query a library [...]
I’ve always loved the products that Wolfram has developed – I spent countless hours on Mathworld and the integrator in college. I always wished that I could have afforded this.
On Friday, they rolled out Wolfram|Alpha. In the introduction video by Stephan Wolfram, he describes the project as follows:
We’re trying to take as much of the [...]
A strong contender for my new favorite video on YouTube. Watch it all the way through… you’ll be glad you did.
Key Quote: “This is the only known case of birds moonwalking to my knowledge.”
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