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Category Archives: cool stuff
Gene Wolfe interview
Friday, August 15, 2014
Twelve Tomorrows Q&A with Science Fiction Author Gene Wolfe | MIT Technology Review.
what is mathematics about?
Monday, April 7, 2014
The Mathematical World What is mathematics about? We know what biology is about; it’s about living things. Or more exactly, the living aspects of living things – the motion of a cat thrown out of a window is a matter for physics, but its physiology is a topic for biology. Oceanography is about oceans; sociology […]
oscar voting
Friday, March 22, 2013
Procedures & Applications: Academy Awards Nominations and Single Transferable Vote Candidate E is known as the Condorcet winner, as it defeats all other candidates in pairwise, head-to-head elections. The Condorcet winner, if one exists, is viewed as a compromise candidate that garners support from the entire electorate, because it can defeat every other candidate head-to-head. […]
Movies 2012
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Some i watched after looking at a couple of best-of lists: Killer Joe – extremely twisted and uniquely discomforting. i don’t think this specific shit goes on in America, but what does? John Dies At The End – this (and the source novel, i assume) “deconstructs” the supernatural thriller brilliantly. Ain’t your parents’ Mulder and […]
this was part of my childhood…
Friday, November 2, 2012
Welcome to OMNI Magazine Collection OMNI was a science and science fiction magazine published in the US and the UK. It contained articles on science fact and short works of science fiction. The first issue was published in October 1978, the last in Winter 1995, with an internet version lasting until 1998. (my childhood wasn’t […]
