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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Lunar eclipse on Feb 20, originally uploaded by Elia Diodati. I took this photo about ten minutes before totality. Saturn can be seen in the lower left corner, and Regulus is above the moon.
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acidflask Posted by acidflask User Menu on February 23, 2008 at e pur si muove
I mean, seriously. Do we need a holy war here? Does it matter if alleged moles were really moles? Is this really about sockpuppetry, or about the undisclosed presence of the Establishment?Even the Establishment has the right to have its views expressed.And come on, feigning threats of legal action? Remember what happened the last time ...
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acidflask Posted by acidflask User Menu on February 17, 2008 at e pur si muove
~sigh~how ignorantthere is something wrong with the attitudes we are imparting to our children- a fellow Singaporean PhD student on IMI see that in the few years since I’ve graduated, things at my alma mater have gotten ever more mad.And yet, some things haven’t changed.Like this:Once these Raffles Junior College students, the creme de la ...
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acidflask Posted by acidflask User Menu on March 16, 2008 at e pur si muove
Here’s a short mathematical riddle for you.Let i be the square root of -1. Then i2 = -1, i3 = i . i2 = -i and i4 = i2 . i2 = 1, and so on. Thus we know how to calculate i to any integer power you might care about.A popular way to interpret ...
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acidflask Posted by acidflask User Menu on February 22, 2008 at e pur si muove
As riots broke out in Belgrade over the independence of Kosovo, most Serbians worried about national unity and keeping the peace.These two greedy girls, however, went on a shopping spree which was caught on camera by Youtube user gvantanamo. Within 24 hours, this 2.5-minute clip has become a top ten most viewed clip of the ...
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acidflask Posted by acidflask User Menu on February 23, 2008 at e pur si muove
So the other day at the local supermarket, I got a coupon for a gallon of free milk. “Was it any brand?” I asked. “Of course”, the cashier said. “It just says …
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acidflask Posted by acidflask User Menu on May 21, 2008 at e pur si muove
The Hong Kong government has for the past few years been wildly inaccurate in its fiscal estimates. This year’s budget surplus of $15bn is more than four times the government‘s previous es …
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acidflask Posted by acidflask User Menu on February 28, 2008 at e pur si muove
Sovereign wealth funds have emerged in recent months as the world’s power brokers. They have used their tremendous wealth to make big cross-border investments and prop up some of Wall Stre …
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acidflask Posted by acidflask User Menu on April 11, 2008 at e pur si muove
The winning design for the Greener Gadgets 2008 competition comes from one Clay Moulton, a Master’s student at Virginia Tech. Moulton’s winning design is the Gravia lamp, which works not off of electricity, but by gravity. To “charge up” the lamp, the user lifts a weight to the top of a column, whereby it slowly ...
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acidflask Posted by acidflask User Menu on March 4, 2008 at e pur si muove
I read the budget speech. Here’s what I got out of it. I decided not to read the last chapter with minutiae about new policies, but otherwise I got pretty much everything. Paragraph numbers in parentheses where pertinent, my comments in footnotes.While the Government had provided for a budget deficit in 2007, clement economic conditions ...
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acidflask Posted by acidflask User Menu on February 28, 2008 at e pur si muove
Fifty years ago today1, William Higinbotham, a staff scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, unveiled the world’s first2 video game. Called Tennis for Two, Higinboth …
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acidflask Posted by acidflask User Menu on October 18, 2008 at 勿忘我
Thanks to twasher who noticed that my RSS feed hadn’t been updating recently. I don’t know what exactly caused it, but it should be fixed now. If you’ve missed any of the posts in the last month, now might be a good time to visit the blog site, catch up via the archives, and help ...
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acidflask Posted by acidflask User Menu on May 31, 2008 at e pur si muove
The Gulf Stream will flow through a straw provided the straw is aligned to the Gulf Stream, and not at cross purposes with it. - Ann Lamont, Bird by Bird, p 121
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acidflask Posted by acidflask User Menu on May 27, 2008 at e pur si muove
[A]rticles like this ... trivialize the difficulty of learning two extremely different languages. - FoxFox blogged about yet another holier-than-thou article in the Straits Times written by an English-speaking Singaporean, Lee Seng Giap (currently on the NTU faculty), who wrote about how he grew up speaking only (mostly) Hokkien, but strove really hard to learn ...
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acidflask Posted by acidflask User Menu on June 5, 2008 at e pur si muove
I’m sitting on the north courtyard overlooking the main university quad on an absolutely gorgeous summer afternoon. The sun is absolutely exuberant, but it’s perhaps a few degrees cooler than it would be in Singapore, and most definitely sans the cloying, impermeable humidity.It’s been a long time since I sat here under an old aspen ...
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acidflask Posted by acidflask User Menu on June 1, 2008 at e pur si muove
I recently watched Catherine Lim’s speech “Singapore: An Inconvenient Truth” on her blog and was thinking over some of the things she had said. So I decided it would be useful to have a transcript of it to look over, since I prefer reading to listening, and there are some details in it that are ...
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acidflask Posted by acidflask User Menu on March 27, 2008 at e pur si muove
I’m willing to bet ten bucks that the [LHC physicists] don’t see supersymmetry. Then string theory will be dead. What a wonderful thing that would be, it’s back to the philosophy department for them. Don’t get me wrong; string theory is a wonderful thing for geometry, but I think it has absolutely nothing to do ...
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acidflask Posted by acidflask User Menu on April 25, 2008 at e pur si muove
“Ohne Sinnlichkeit würde uns kein Gegenstand gegeben, und ohne Verstand keiner gedacht werden. Gedanken ohne Inhalt sind leer, Anschauungen ohne Begriffe sind blind.” - Kritik …
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acidflask Posted by acidflask User Menu on March 24, 2008 at e pur si muove
Fox told me yesterday that the engineers in his building were routinely and wantonly disposing of liters of hydrofluoric acid down the sink after using them for etching.Although a quirk of …
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acidflask Posted by acidflask User Menu on May 28, 2008 at e pur si muove
I was going to keep quiet about this, but I changed my mind. Alex Au at Yawning Bread recently wrote an article questioning Singapore’s push into biomedical research. (Yes, the title …
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acidflask Posted by acidflask User Menu on May 30, 2008 at e pur si muove

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