Every year our church does a book drive does a book drive for the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The announcement for the 2011 drive was just posted on several bulletin boards around the building. mia_mcdavid was apparently the first person to take a good look at it. Whoever put it together was evidently in a hurry :-)>
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I went to another of these on Saturday, same place as last year’s. Lots of wonderful Lie-Nielsen tools: Continue reading
See the MIT NSE Nuclear Information Hub. Via this post by mdlbear, who also linked to this summary and warning about media hype. The summary dates from early yesterday, but the updates from MIT so far seem to be consistent with it.
Encouraged by mia_mcdavid and carpe_noctum_93, and by discovering that there are two other brewers in my Irish class, I started another batch of beer.
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There was a recent media kerfuffle about MOND (Modified Newtonian Dynamics), an alternative physical theory that supposedly eliminates the need to have dark matter be a major part of the universe.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 