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From Singapore science blogger FreshBrainz comes a “vlogumentary” on the history of the pipet, that bane of many a ‘O’ level chemistry student and the staple instrument of many working scientists:
Elia Diodati posted a photo:4th of July fireworks in Dodds Park in Champaign, IL
According to our survey, [not] many people go to the political blog[s]. It’s just very simple - the Malays don’t read [English]! Why should we worry [about it]? We’re not worried. Who will read this? [Political blogs have] no influence. Who’re [they] gonna influence? These blogs and [the] Internet depend on [newspapers for their credibility]. ...
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Just got back from a midnight screening of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.As usual, they’ve been very liberal with the details, but I must say they did a much better job this time round of extracting a coherent simplified plot out of the book than the previous two movies.The movie credits are ...
Elia Diodati posted a photo:A tugboat came by and made a few ripples in the otherwise calm waters of Sturgeon Bay.
This week’s Youtube Monday highlights how a little kid beginning out on the drums at age 2 can play by the time he hits 11:The Youtube comments are hilarious - they complain a lot about how the parents screwed the kid out of a promising career as a drummer by making him play with awful ...
“I always thought of Dumbledore as gay. [ovation.] … Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald, and that that added to his horror when Grindelwald showed himself to be what he was. To an extent, do we say it excused Dumbledore a little more because falling in love can blind us to an extent? But, he ...
More specifically, I wasted most of the day reading entries in the quote database on bash.org. Most of them are somewhat banal, scatological, or just sexual; some are gems, such as #85403: You know, I think there’s a point in your life when you realize that life’s just not worth it ...
In the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters, a E. V. Tsiper of the George Mason University in Fairfax, VA and the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC managed to slip by what I consider to be the funniest citation that I’ve ever seen make it into a staid scientific journal.In the opening paragraph, a citation ...
Tetris was my first computer game ever. Watching this guy play makes me feel like I need to go back to kindergarten:
I have six available invites to pownce, the new file sending/event planning thingy-bob in the Web 2.0 universe. First come, first served. Contact me any way you like.
density functional theory beta versionMy advisor told me about Kieron Burke's project to write a textbook on density functional theory. It's woefully incomplete, but very insightful.
The world is not a welcoming place to smart people.Smart people disrupt things. They constantly think about why people do certain things, why they are done a certain way, and why we bother doing them. Some even go to the extent of recursive/self-referential/meta-thought about why they worry over such things, perhaps even ad infinitum.1 Even ...
Seen on BoingBoing sometime back, but it’s hilarious even now. A bunch of anime friends meet on the streets of Akihabara and do a cosplay dance, then get busted by the police:Apparen …
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