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Thursday, October 14, 2004

Linkage, Part III

Orgies are the way to ease social tensions, claims US judge. I'll tell you what will ease my social tensions. Duct tape.

Stats about all US cities. (via Pharyngula) An interesting resource. The demographics of where I live isn't so surprising. I think I was more interested in the crime statistics. What can I say, I'm a bit morbid.

Square bacteria grown in lab for the first time. I must be weird or something because I think this is totally cute. Even cuter than cats and dogs and various rodents.

Mother's genetics could influence sexual orientation. I've heard of this hypothesis before. But who knows if this is just a statistical fluke of the particular population they were looking at.

Publisher to put science journals online. "German science publisher Springer Science + Business Media will start in January to put all back issues of its 1,250 scientific journals on the Internet, some of which date back to 1886." Ooo. Old journals. Have I told you that I browse old science journals in my spare time? Well now you know--that I'm an even bigger geek than you thought I was.

A Puzzle for the Autumnal Equinox. "Every now and then you come across a scientific hypothesis that is so elegant and powerful in its ability to explain that it just feels right. Yet that doesn't automatically make it right. Even when an elegant hypothesis gets support from experiments, it's not time to declare victory."

The 20 greatest equations. My favorites? Maxwell's equations, Schrodinger's equation, and the Ideal Gas Law. E=mc² is way overrated.

[posted by S. Y. Affolee on 4:21 AM : ]

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