Category Archives: sciences

the stubborn spiral

Posted on Saturday, 2005 February 19 by Anton

Rusin’s disco ball golden angles Saff & Kuijlaars Examples of three algorithms for distributing nodes fairly evenly over a sphere. Those on the middle and right slice the sphere into parallel bands of equal area (much narrower than the white … Continue reading →

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QotD

Posted on Friday, 2005 February 18 by Anton

. . . I consider the right of property to consist in the freedom to dispose first of one’s person, then of one’s labor, and finally, of the products of one’s labor — which proves, incidentally, that, from a certain … Continue reading →

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under the hurtling moons

Posted on Sunday, 2005 February 06 by Anton

Too cool! Titan appears to have rivers of liquid methane.

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mark your calendar

Posted on Saturday, 2004 December 25 by Anton

Asteroid 2004MN4 is an exceptionally high impact threat: the boffins give it one chance in 45 of intersecting with Earth on 2029 April 13. Monday: Or not; newer measurements have taken that date off the list, though they still give … Continue reading →

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temporal foreshortening

Posted on Friday, 2004 December 24 by Anton

On a private mailing list someone wrote: having just seen the 1951 Britisher version of the Dickens Christmas Carol, it struck me that free marketeers should really live in Dickensian England and try work their way out from the bottom. … Continue reading →

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Doctor Matrix’s little helpers

Posted on Friday, 2004 December 24 by Anton

Ed Pegg writes: I’d like to do a “behind the scenes” look at Mathematical Games for an article. Martin [Gardner] did lots, but he avidly used a lot of help from hundreds of people. I’d like to write an article … Continue reading →

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death by safety

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 December 15 by Anton

Independent Institute: History of Federal [drug] Regulation (cited by Sunni Maravillosa)

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