Archive for June, 2008
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
So, I know I said no posts this week to save my eyes, but this is going to be a short one.
Reader Joel dropped me a note asking my opinion about his math on a Metafilter post about bidis. In it, he points out a page that makes some ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
I'm not normally afflicted with migraines. That's why when I got one at work earlier this week, accompanied by strobing glare encroaching from the periphery of my vision, I thought it was eye strain. I'd been sitting in an office with overhead fluorescents on a dimmer switch that ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Now that I'm into my third calendar month of publishing this, I thought I'd shake things up a little bit and explore some things that are not equivalent. And if you're wondering why former Vice President of the United States Dan Quayle is headlining today's installment, read on.
The odd ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Friday's column, where we figured out the weight of the air inside an airhead, made me think on the topic of the volume of a skull and what else could fit in there besides 17 featherweights of air. Fourteen-hundred cubic centimeters of volume in a human skull, 1.4 liters, ...
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