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Amazon’s Kindle: Made in Israel
At Israel21c
The logic of the dedicated eReader
2010 style Christmas
The Gaskell affair
Wish List
At Spiked Math
Nasty, brutish and not that short
Medieval warfare was just as terrifying as you might imagine
The soldier now known as Towton 25 had survived battle before. A healed skull fracture points to previous engagements. He was old enough—somewhere between 36 and 45 when he died—to have gained plenty of experience of fighting. But on March 29th 1461, his luck ran out.
Fun with Statistics
One week later: Still digging out
The compost bucket in the kitchen was full. I had to take contents to the big compost bin, behind the shed in the back yard. However, before I could do that I had to clear a path to the bin. Picture behind cut
Progress in Physics
LHC’s Lack of Black Holes Rules Out Some Versions of String Theory
the LHC doesn’t seem to be making black holes at all—their decay signature is markedly absent from the data collected so far.
[This is] helping physicists make up their minds about how many dimensions there are in our universe. The lack of black holes at the LHC nullifies some of the wackier versions of string theory which depend on multiple dimensions.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 