Category Archives: sciences

what family doesn’t have its ups and downs?

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 May 15 by Anton

If we persons of pallor are all descended from Charlemagne, we could still one-up each other on what fraction of our ancestry is royal, or how few of the links in the chain are female. If a genie offered me … Continue reading →

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we distort, you deride

Posted on Monday, 2002 May 13 by Anton

A misquoted economist remarks: . . . (“I’m reading right off Fox news!” gets my vote as worst argument from authority ever).

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I always wanted one

Posted on Sunday, 2002 May 12 by Anton

A Webwide World by Ken Perlin, NYU, 1998 – Java applet that rapidly generates a fractal planet. Unlike the Planet of the Day generated by ppmforge, Perlin’s planet is three-dimensional and can be rotated.

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old medium meets new

Posted on Friday, 2002 May 10 by Anton

It was a treat to see Eugene Volokh quoted in The Economist — to his own surprise.

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nerds mourn

Posted on Friday, 2002 May 10 by Anton

The sequels to The Matrix are not The Transpose and The Eigenvector but Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions.

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human mosaic

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 May 08 by Anton

At age 18 or so I wrote a scene (opening an otherwise unconceived story) set in the distant future, in which one of the characters was a tiger-striped human. Now . . . Look halfway down this page: Human genetics: Dual identities … Continue reading →

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more periodic sites

Posted on Monday, 2002 May 06 by Anton

World Wide Words looks into the origins of those phrases that puzzle you. Ponder This: monthly brain-teaser from IBM.

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