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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; } Burst water pipe in CLSL 5, originally uploaded by Elia Diodati. My work yesterday was interrupted at 5:40 pm or so by the fire alarm. . Turned out the sprinkler mains water pipe had exploded due ...
Elia Diodati posted a photo:4th of July fireworks in Dodds Park in Champaign, IL
Telling these truths is your job. You have nothing else to tell us. But needless to say, you can’t tell them in a sentence or a paragraph; the truth doesn’t come out in bumper stickers. There may be a flickering moment of insight in a one-liner, in a sound bite, but everyday meat-and-potato truth is ...
Elia Diodati posted a photo:4th of July fireworks in Dodds Park in Champaign, IL
Elia Diodati posted a photo:The fire alarm went off yesterday at the local chemistry lab. Turned out the sprinkler mains water pipe had exploded due to a failure in the water heater.
Sam Chui’s photograph of the Singapore Airlines A380 next to the Boeing 747 (bottom) is impressive, but why is the flag on the A380 horizontally flipped?I thought it might be standard aviation practice, but it is possible to make out that the flag is oriented correctly on the 747 and is not flipped.
GoThere[cond-mat/0211443v5] A bird's-eye view of density-functional theoryLucid and well-written introduction to DFT as it is practiced today
“Now of course, PM Lee Hsien Loong will not use A-level grades as his sole selection criterion [for his successor]. But the fact that he uses A-level grades as a selection criterion at all is quite shocking.” - Mr WangThanks to chiao for the heads-up to this article in the Financial Times (London) discussing the ...
In the ongoing unrest in Myanmar, Japanese jounalist Kenji Nagai as well as several civilians were reportedly gunned down by the Burmese military.The UN special envoy, Ibrahim Gambari, was finally allowed to enter Myanmar.In 2002, I saw a moderately high-ranking civil servant being asked about Singapore’s official attitude toward Burma/Myanmar. The response was a …
If you’ve never heard of this heat-sensitive fish that swims instinctively to warm, urea-laden streams of water, you’ve got quite a story waiting for you about the candirú. Mal …
If you’ve ever wondered how one ought to cite a blog as a source, or even if it’s legitimate to do so, the NLM guide to citing blogs (and even comments!) is worth a look-over.
Could somebody kindly explain to me why half the Singapore blogosphere has apparently signed up for Facebook accounts in the past week? I mean, just look at the new Facebook groups: tomorrow.sg, ping.sg, and even the Singapore Angle hivemind. Who knows, even the Intelligent Singaporean brotherhood may already be lurking somewhere on Facebook in a ...
Returning to Singapore after a nearly four-year absence was quite an eye-opener.In a few weeks, I think I’ve received more dirty looks than in the past three-plus years here in the United States. That’s including several trips to New York City and a trip to the mudflats of Oklahoma. When did this whole dirty look ...
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