Followup to Favorite Proof
February 6, 2013, 12:00 amResults to Favorite Proof:
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Favorite Proof
January 25, 2013, 12:00 am“Whatever blows your hair back.”
So what’s your favorite proof? Why? Do me a favor and plug it into this spreadsheet, and in a couple of days I’ll put it to a vote.
Complex Numbers and Calculus
January 8, 2013, 12:00 amIf your computer can handle it, the things going on in this webpage are _amazing_: http://acko.net/blog/how-to-fold-a-julia-fractal/
— Daniel Schneider (@MathyMcMatherso) January 6, 2013
Astonishing work to put this webpage together.
More pizza?
December 16, 2012, 12:00 amFrom a review of a local pizza place:
Because of the easily laid out website, I could see that getting three 10-inch pizzas ($6 for plain cheese, $7 for pepperoni, and $9 for a house combo “Carcass” pie with sausage, bacon, pepperoni and meatballs) would result in more pizza and easier-to-handle...
Deadly Nightshade
October 8, 2012, 12:00 amOur baby is teething and while I was at the pharmacy, I saw a homeopathic remedy for teething babies with the following ingredients:
Belladonna, aka Deadly Nightshade, has what percentage of alkaloids? 0.0000000000003% or 3 x 10^-13%
Or if we take 1g of “medicine” then there are 3 femtograms,...
Matchstick Puzzler: 16 – 90 Degree Angles
October 6, 2012, 12:00 amNew puzzler from Cartalk:
How do you make 16 ninety-degree angles out of 4 matchsticks?
Bret Victor’s Learnable Programming
September 27, 2012, 12:00 amBret Victor (Inventing on Principle) wrote an excellent essay on Learnable Programming. If you have any interest in how people learn computer programming best, or how people learn in general, then go read it. Now. Shoo. And you probably want to read it on a computer; there are several short vid...
Batting Averages Puzzler
September 22, 2012, 12:00 amFrom the soon to be retiring Car Talk radio show, a fantastic new baseball puzzler.
RAY: As you might guess, I’m a baseball fan. And now that the season is in its waning days, I thought I’d use this baseball Puzzler I’ve been saving.
There are two rookie players, Bluto and Popeye, who started...
Shadow Art
September 18, 2012, 12:00 am
iPads save Jetfuel
September 11, 2012, 12:00 amFrom paritynews:
American Airlines has announced that it has received the permission from FAA to allow its pilots to carry and use iPads in the cockpit during “all phases of flight.”
According to the airlines, the tablet will enable pilots to store documentation in electronic form on the iPa...