Category Archives: sciences

stoners everywhere

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 June 24 by Anton

Jacob Sullum: Reefer gladness / Drug users in the next office and atop the corporate ladder Lewis, the man who accomplished all this, remains Progressive’s chairman and owns more than a tenth of the company’s shares, making him a billionaire. … Continue reading →

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Computer Graphics and Geometric Ornamental Design

Posted on Friday, 2003 June 20 by Anton

Craig Kaplan writes: Whenever possible, one’s thesis should be write-only. Nevertheless, I understand if once in a while a visitor to this page may choose to read what I’ve written.

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the copper peril

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 June 17 by Anton

Could a penny dropped from the top of the Empire State Building kill a pedestrian on the street below? The Experiment. (Thanks again to Joanne Schmitz) 2021: Closing comments on this one to cut down a little bit on spam.

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the promised what?

Posted on Sunday, 2003 June 15 by Anton

Why Jews Don’t Farm. Link from Matthew Yglesias, whose commentors don’t think much of the essay.

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spheres subtracted

Posted on Wednesday, 2003 June 04 by Anton

Hyperbolic geometry, provoked by “Not Knot”. The shape at the end of that show is an ideal rhombic dodecahedron (‘ideal’ means some of its vertices are at infinity) seen from inside; here it is seen from outside, in the Poincaré … Continue reading →

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