links for 2008-03-29
2.009 Product Engineering Processes: Archimedes
MIT students trying to recreate Archimedes death ray from 250 BC. They describe him as a “a notably smart person”
(tags: history)
2.009 Product Engineering Processes: Archimedes
MIT students trying to recreate Archimedes death ray from 250 BC. They describe him as a “a notably smart person”
(tags: history)
A couple of weeks ago I was reading A Many-Colored Glass by Freeman Dyson. Its a collection partly of his Page-Barbour lectures and a bunch of other ones. Dyson is the father of Esther and George, who you might also know.
Dyson is a Physicist, or as the MIT boys descibed Archimedes when they […]
A fractal is something that has never ending detail. Looking at the thing from a distance the over all shape is clear. But the closer you look at it, the more details are revealed. The blue picture on the right, for example, is a picture of the Mandelbrot set. The red […]
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Hillary: About Face, originally uploaded by The Searcher.
The best thing about fantasy baseball is that everyone is here because they want to be. It’s not Just a Job, no one is doing it for the money. I’m only tangentially involved — those of you who know me are not surprised to learn that I’m way more interesting in the math […]
I posted those videos mostly on Thursday and Friday through YouTube’s share interface, and they just showed up now. I think from now on I do it by “hand”.
Bring Your Own Big Wheel
I’m not normally a fan on the left coast, but this is an event I’m sad to miss.
Jason has just released a new trailer for Get Lamp. I’ve actually watched the full BBS Documentary a couple of times, which may say something about me, but I actually got Robin to watch a bunch of it with me, which probably says something about how well Jason makes documentaries. (I’ve I’m not […]
The whole tone of the film is whiny, paranoid — pathetic really. The narrator is somebody called Ben Stein. I had not heard of him, but apparently he is well known to Americans, for it is hard to see why else he would have been chosen to front the film. He certainly can’t have been […]
You know that Ben Stein creationism movie we talked about before? Here’s a video of PZ Myers talking with Richard Dawkins about how Myers got Expelled from a screening of Expelled, but they let in his guest Richard Dawkins. Slick PR work there!
Fake. You Are Not Dead, A Guide To Modern Living.
(tags: art)
Game Plan Energy Literacy
(tags: design energy green)
Apple - Trailers - Standard Operating Procedure - Trailer
(tags: documentary photography)
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