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The most influential scientist ever
R.A. Fisher (By one measure)
Monday Night Irish Class, March 5, 2012
Irish Class, March 5, 2012
Rang Gaeilge, 5ú lá Mí na Márta 2012
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Tá mo bhean agus mo iníon altrama i Michigan an tseachtain seo. Tá siad ag tabhairt cuairte ar ghaolta. Níl ach mo mhac agus mé sa bhaile. Tá sé an-chiúin agus síochánta ann.
The First Americans?
New evidence suggests Stone Age hunters from Europe discovered America
Stone-age Europeans ‘were the first to set foot on North America’
European style stone tools suggest Stone Age people actually discovered America
Radical theory of first Americans places Stone Age Europeans in Delmarva 20,000 years ago
America ‘discovered by Stone Age hunters from Europe’
From Explorator and Archaeology in Europe
Witches?
Monday Night Irish Class, February 27, 2012
Irish Class, February 27, 2012
Rang Gaeilge, 27ú lá Mí Feabhra 2012
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Five minutes of astrophotography
The Moon, Venus, and Jupiter have putting on quite a show in the last few evenings. The sky was quite clear about 6:30 PM Monday night and they were very striking. On a whim I pulled out my Blackberry to see what I could do with it. I just held it in my hand — no tripod. Here is what I got, cropped appropriately:
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Breaking news
Error Undoes Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results
From Phil Plait, Peter Coles, and Mike Brown (“Plutokiller”), who noted:
- science is hard
- science is self-correcting
- tighten your connectors
“When correctly viewed, everything is lewd”
Examples from Tom Lehrer’s own field:
A famous memo
“My Observations During the Explosion at Trinity on July 16, 1945”, by Enrico Fermi
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 
