“Many rock concerts are actually louder than the Big Bang.”
From How Loud was the Big Bang?, where you can see the math to back up that claim.
Fun with cosmology
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Monthly Archives: March 2011
From the chutzpah file
Student isn’t the only one mad at Twin Cities term-paper company.
The college senior in Colorado felt cheated when for $23 per page she ordered a custom-written term paper from a Twin Cities company and it wasn’t delivered on time.
Never mind that she was cheating by passing off a paper written by a stranger as her own. She complained to the Better Business Bureau about Essaywritingcompany.com, owned by Jordan Kavoosi of Farmington.
From Best of the Web Today.
Monday Night Irish Class, March 28, 2011
Irish Class, March 28, 2011
Rang Gaeilge, 28ú lá Mí na Márta 2011
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Will passed around a copy of Cén Sórt é?:
A compendium of the varied and vast words in the Irish language to describe different kinds of people. The work was assembled using a wide range of authoritive sources and contains cross-references to these sources. It will be both a source of reference and pleasure for users of the language.
At a glance, most of the “words … to describe different kinds of people” seem to be negative. Looks like fun,
and well worth a few Euros.
Saved by calculus
A couple weeks ago I went to the going out of business sale for the Borders bookstore in St. Paul. While being a vulture browsing the sale, I glanced through 100 Essential Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know: Math Explains Your World and saw this story from the Russian Civil War:
Science: ….
Monday night Irish Class, March 21, 2011
Irish Class, March 21, 2011
Rang Gaeilge, 21ú lá Mí na Márta 2011
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Homebrewers have friends in high places!
The Obamas Make History With Homebrewed White House Honey Ale.
Unfortunately, despite pleas from brewers all over the country, they have not yet released the recipe.
The Two Cultures in 2011
From The Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Science
Scientists have been complaining for decades that, while they would be ashamed to admit knowing nothing about Jane Austen’s novels, literary colleagues can get away with total ignorance of relativity and quantum theory. Continue reading
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 