December 2009
14 posts
Burma’s Neighbour →
DS Web: Drink or Drink Not, There Is No Creamer →
“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have...”
– George Bernard Shaw
(from The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe Podcast)
Gravity Wells →
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Nuclear reactor cutaway diagrams →
WatchI saw this a while ago, then someone showed it to me again, and I fell in love with it once more.
Another short explanation of Gödel's theorem →
a modest proposal for transit stations
The University Transit station has the stock electric heaters dangling haphazardly from the roof. I have a beef with them. For one they appear to be ~3.6m off the ground (really high up), for two they rely upon natural convection to heat up the area beneath them.
In theory this might work fine if the air in the transit station was relatively quiescent, but it’s not. Air blows down the...
“I left Symon’s company newly aware of the unthinking cruelty discreetly...”
– Alain De Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, McClelland & Stewart, 2009, pp.127
request for a torture device for my sweaters
So I have an annoying habit of just chucking everything in the laundry unsorted, and so I have managed to shrink nearly every sweater I own at one point or another. Naturally I then soak them in water and try and stretch them back out, but this leads to mixed results (sometimes I stretch too far, sometimes not enough, sometimes stretched asymmetrically).
It seems to me that it should be possible...