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132. Fun with Amazon.com
As you know very well, Amazon.com is an incredible source of extremely valuable assets which can become yours with just one click (well… several clicks… and giving them your credit card number… and more clicks… but, anyway, let me be positive ). (…)
130. A question in general relativity and another poll
I have been asked the following question by one of my friends:
“I know that the frame of reference determines that it is the stay-at-home twin who ages faster than the twin travelling at some fraction of light speed. (…)
129. Metamodern - the trajectory of technology
Hi friends
Just wanted to let you know that Eric Drexler, considered by many as a founding father of nanotechnology, the man of great vision enormously respected by your humble correspondent ;-), the author of “Nanosystems” and “Engines of creation“, has just made his own blog “Metamodern” open for public. (…)
128. Melancholy
Jim Kotsybar has just sent me his another poem, which I liked very much (as usual) and would want to share it with you. (…)
119. Fun with energy gap for QCD Born-Oppenheimer Hamiltonian
Let us try to solve the Exercise 2 in this post about the Wilson loop. (…)
118. Last two weeks of November on NEQNET
Well, those two weeks were quite productive ones! (…)
116. Hawking at PI
So, all these rumors actually had something to do with reality… and those smart ons who thought that the appointment of Neil Turok as the Director of PI should at some point lead to Hawking’s relocation to Canada, were actually right. (…)
114. But Korean inventors are sometimes ahead of Japanese…
as Lubos Motl indicates in comments to the previous post Indeed so, the creativity of Sumsing engineers is overwhelming! Enjoy.
113. Japanese inventors are always ahead
Some 30-40 years ago there was a movement among Russian inventors amazingly popular at that time (not so popular nowadays) - for example, a couple of research institutes was entirely devoted to its development. (…)
109. Two horror movies: one documental, another - Hollywood
A day before my departure in Munich we watched Shyamalans The happening recently released. Personally, I like Shyamalan, especially Six sense and Unbreakable, but this one was a disaster. (…)
107. New “Ender in Exile” by Orson Scott Card
Sorry for the off-topic but I am actually a HUGE fun of the Ender series by Orson Scott Card. (…)
105. And to scare you even more…
Overall traffic (all US roads and streets) has dropped down 4.4% (equivalent to 10.7 billion vehicle miles) for September 2008 (compared to September 2007). (…)
104. World crisis - looking for a job?
US unemployment claims surged to a 16-year high, government data showed Thursday, adding to growing alarm as companies worldwide shed workers in the global economic downturn. (…)
100. Little celebration
Hmm… as you may have noticed, this is… actually… the post number 100 I have no idea how did it happen, how I was managing to find staff to write about for so long I remember, when I’ve just decided to start this thing, the first question I asked myself was - What all this will be about??? (…)
98. Rant: Big Bubble of the housing market
This post is the next one in the series devoted to the study of the global financial crisis, its origins and possible consequences. (…)
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