Category Archives: sciences

traipse

Posted on Thursday, 2002 April 18 by Anton

Ray-Traced Sphere — the old-fashioned way!

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one among many

Posted on Friday, 2002 April 05 by Anton

Isaac Asimov (1920-92) died of AIDS, from a tainted transfusion in 1983. (Locus; Ansible.) Was he the most famous such victim? Bill Detty asks: was he more famous than Arthur Ashe?

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behind the digits

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 March 26 by Anton

Got an approximation to a real number, and want to know what formula is hidden behind it? Try Plouffe’s Inverter.

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Popshot

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 March 26 by Anton

Popshot, a new punk rock magazine, scolds naïve anti-capitalists for getting the wrong end of the stick. (Found in Aaron Krowne’s blog of which I was not previously aware; he was on my list of sites to look at because … Continue reading →

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greenery on the red planet?

Posted on Monday, 2002 March 25 by Anton

Mammoth trees near Martian south pole? Well, they’re curious, whatever they are. Could be accretions of something sticky, as in the ‘Coral’ screensaver. Reminds me of a book I have, Where will we go when the Sun dies?, which I … Continue reading →

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