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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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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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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Over the past few days, friends have been asking me "have you seen this measuring cup?" They were all abuzz about this new gag measuring cup that featured markings on it for things like "20,000 grains of rice" or "volume of half a human brain." I knew I ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
In the "Molecules of Caffeine" post, I calculated the number of caffeine molecules in a can of Mountain Dew. This lead reader Scott to e-mail me about the concept of parts per billion. For example, the Environmental Protection Agency has set their "action level" for lead in drinking ...
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