Category Archives: sciences

Merlyn the rocket scientist?

J R Stockton collects a lot of useful tidbits about orbital mechanics and the like.

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it even has a distinctive gait

Avahi cleesei

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Brent gets desperate

how to impress chicks?

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Free Market Anti-Capitalism

I wonder what I did to deserve being blogrolled by Mutualist (Kevin Carson).

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Framestore CFC Press Release

noitulovE, a quick recap (in reverse) of the last few hundred million years of life; gorgeous animation (Quicktime). Cited in povray.off-topic by Gilles Tran.

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“for god’s sake, please stop the aid!”

Spiegel Interview with African Economics Expert If the West were to cancel these payments, normal Africans wouldn’t even notice. Only the functionaries would be hard hit. Which is why they maintain that the world would stop turning without this development … Continue reading

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QotD

Letter to The Economist, August 13 issue: My professor on an accounting course at Harvard Business School 25 years ago introduced it thus: “When most of you read accounting statements now, you do not understand them. At the end of … Continue reading

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