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:
Irish Class, March 21, 2011
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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.
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
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
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 