Category Archives: sciences

guess what

Travis doesn’t like “bioethicists” either.

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Randome

Dick Fischbeck has a new website for a kind of structure that he calls Randome, formed of overlapping shallow cones.

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heard on the wind

Gary Becker and Richard Posner have a blog (any day now)

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three extropian items

Mike Linksvayer attended a lecture on “Changes in the Disparities in Chronic Diseases During the Course of the Twentieth Century”. Perry Metzger shares a report (pdf) on infrastructure in Somalia. (Later: Michael Tennant comments on it at Strike The Root.) … Continue reading

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all of you, you’re nothing but random seeds!

On BART today, a fellow passenger saw me making notes on paper and occasionally looking up, and got the idea that I was taking statistics on the passengers. No, I said, I’m doing math for my own entertainment. He sat … Continue reading

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maybe it shoulda been called the Kallikak monkey trial

Inherit the Wind somehow never mentioned that the evilutionist textbook used by John Scopes was racist and eugenist. Jim Lindgren, Volokh Conspirator, has the story.

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squished hypertorus

This is intended to be an orthographic projection of a stereographic projection from S5 (the five-dimensional surface of a sphere in six-dimensional space) into E5 (flat five-space) of the cartesian product S2 × S2, a kind of torus. The colors … Continue reading

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