Category Archives: sciences

testing their faith

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 May 01 by Anton

CNN.com – Greek mystery virus spreads “It should be considered blasphemous, to say the least, to consider it possible that epidemic ailments could be transferred through holy communion and endanger human life,” the Athens diocese said in a statement released … Continue reading →

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Escherism

Posted on Monday, 2002 April 29 by Anton

Tessellating Animations, some quite witty. (Cited by Plokta and BoingBoing)

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busk to the future

Posted on Monday, 2002 April 29 by Anton

The poet Tom Digby asks (on his own list): Didn’t bards of old live largely on tips and free meals and such, rather than from some giant corporation pushing packaged “product”? Might the Internet move us back toward that model? … Continue reading →

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blog vector

Posted on Sunday, 2002 April 28 by Anton

Angela Vierling is a grad student, studying algebraic geometry; and she has a blog. Sadly, it’s not very active. August 2003: It’s a lot more active than it was. October 2004: it’s gone, but she saved some archives.

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travelling gamblers cautioned

Posted on Friday, 2002 April 26 by Anton

Bias for heads in euro coins? More study needed.

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my pet programming project

Posted on Thursday, 2002 April 25 by Anton

Over several years now I have worked sporadically to catalog hypothetical fullerenes — i.e. convex closed surfaces built of pentagons and hexagons. Last year I tossed out my old work in C to start over in Python, whose list primitive … Continue reading →