Yesterday we went out for dinner, then had a private tour of Yerkes Observatory, up in Williams Bay, WI.
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Yesterday we went out for dinner, then had a private tour of Yerkes Observatory, up in Williams Bay, WI.
If you like numbers and charts and stuff, you’re going to love FredBlog! [fredblog]
Various links of weirdness led me to this collection of wonders:
It’s been hypothesized for a long time. Rogue black holes.
I don’t believe in god, but I sure believe in dog.
These are incredible artworks, by “Holy Smoke”
If you’re not familiar with Derek Lowe’s “In the Pipeline” blog, you should be. Whether you’re a chemist or not, his writing is witty and wonderful and breathes zing and pizazz into, uh, your breath-mask. [things I won’t work with]
I’ve keynoted and attended a lot of conferences in the course of my career. So, naturally, a piece of spam that looks like it’s a conference invitation goes right through my bayesian spam classifier.
I discovered this gem a few years ago, by accident, while I was researching the Furtwängler performance of April 20, 1942 [more] Originally, there was a shorter version of Kelly’s presentation on youtube, but he re-recorded it and has made it available on Harvard’s edX [Kelly] free online educational program.
… Is we talk about books.
In a past thread, someone commented about topologists not knowing the difference between a donut and a coffee cup.
I forwarded that to a friend of mine who’s a recovering topologist, who said “of course we can tell the difference: coffee stays in a cup and leaves a donut.”