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The Great Geek Off 5.0
By Garth Sundem
Are You a Hero, but Not in St. Louis?
By Josh Witten
Ethiopian Binary Multiplication
By Barry Leiba
Special Relativity Makes My Brain Hurt
By Garth Sundem
Festival of Idiots #12: Murray Gell-Mann for Feeding...
By Josh Witten
TEL AVIV and BERLIN, July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- German-Israeli cooperation brings together two complementary
approaches to the advancement of commercialization of tomorrow's
technologies. Germany Trade & Invest, the Israeli-German Chamber of Commerce,
and several partners will be hosting the 1st Israeli-German>
It’s the most famous chord in rock 'n' roll, an instantly recognizable twang rolling through the open strings on George Harrison’s 12-string Rickenbacker. It evokes a Pavlovian response from music fans as they sing along to the refrain that follows:"It’s been a hard day’s nightAnd I’ve been working like>
House of StrawUse six straws to create the classic house shape (a rectangular body with two straws forming the roof, all laying flat on the table). Bet that you can make four equal triangles by moving only three straws. Try it! To all but the most creatively freethinking, this is impossible. The trick is to go 3D—pick>
Noise can be irritating and possibly harmful for everything from mice to humans – and maybe even 60-foot whales in the Gulf of Mexico. That's why in recent years, there has been concern that man-made noise may be a cause of stress for dolphins, whales and other marine mammals, but the results of a five-year study>
Today I visited the 53rd international art exposition at the Biennale di Venezia, which this year is titled "Fare Mondi" (making worlds). I am posting below a few pictures I took of the installations I saw there, for those of you who are not insensitive to contemporary arts. But before I do, let me add a personal note.>
We're not marketing experts so we miss out on golden opportunities to publish stuff and then have a contest and an awards ceremony devoted to the stuff we publish - apparently, we should, but we'd still want to make it look open and transparent, so we'd call it "Best Scientific Blogging ..." and include a few outside>
