Irish Class, February 2, 2015
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| Rud nach bhfuil is nach mbeidh, nead ag an luch i bhféasóg an chait. | A thing that is not and will not be, the mouse having a nest in the whiskers of a cat. |
féasóg “beard” |
| Chomh dubh le tóin an phúca. | As black as the butt of a pooka. |
German scientists invent working teleporter, of sorts
An object at one end of the system is milled down layer-by-layer, creating a scan per layer which is then transmitted through an encrypted communication to a 3D printer. The printer then replicates the original object layer by layer, effectively teleporting an object from one place to another.
From Spiked Math
From Telescoper
The answer here is “Yes,” although it is almost all speculation. However, as Nassim Nicholas Taleb likes to say, the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Irish Class, January 26, 2015
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| Ó bearradh na Rónta. | “From when the seals were shaved” | (A really long time ago) |
| Chom Gaelach le muca Dhroichead Átha | “As Irish as the pigs of Drogheda” | (As Irish as can be) Droichead Átha = “bridge of the ford” |
Figuring the odds of Earth’s global hot streak
First, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration calculates global average temperature going back to 1880. That’s 135 years. So if no other forces were in play and temperatures last year were totally at random, then the odds of 2014 being the warmest on record are 1 in 135. Not too high.
Irish Class, January 12, 2015
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| Go dtí Lá San Dic | Until the day of St. Dick | (there is no St. Dick) |
| Lá nach dtig | A day that never comes | i.e., when hell freezes over |
By Mike (“Plutokiller”) Brown:
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 