I do kind of miss Greenspan. This isn’t even my tirade, and I’m not used to tirades in song form, and especially not this song:
Possibly the best thing to ever come out of Columbia’s business school
It’s all about the Hamiltons
Posted by scientific
on May 31, 2006
Pennies from Heaven
Posted by scientific
on May 17, 2006
Have you ever wondered about how to categorize the world so as to make it understandable? Neat people and messy people? Fun places and boring places. People who find it interesting to categorize the world and those who don’t.
Mental history
Posted by scientific
on May 17, 2006
These interesting world maps were created using techniques adopted from thermal transfer equations.
The Fifth Law of Nature
Posted by scientific
on May 15, 2006
The four fundamental laws of nature define our understanding of the world in terms of its physical properties: gravity, electromagnetism and the weak and strong nuclear forces. These forces do not explain everything, and many physics theorists believe this is because the forces are still incompletely understood, or that the properties of the universe are more subtle. This leads many physicists to believe that there is a coming breakthrough in understanding the physical properties of the universe, that will more accurately describe the universe and predict its behavior.