I twitted earlier this week an Open Letter to the Royal Institution by Ian Gent in response to the bizarre and quite frankly ludicrous decision by the RI to trademark the term “Christmas Lectures”. I agree… Read More »Yuletide Disquisitions?? Come on!
It is not uncommon to see a large number of people using spreadsheets in their work. As a matter of fact this tool can be of great help to speed calculations, explore models and even… Read More »Spreadsheets and Economics
I have been meaning to write this post for a while, but for one reason or another (or rather many reasons…) I had not been able to. Right, so what has triggered this post? Well,… Read More »Quantum Leap… Are you sure you mean that?
Listen as Albert Einstein Reads ‘The Common Language of Science’ 1941 | Open Culture. Have you ever wondered how Albert Einstein sounded? Well here you have an opportunity to find out. In the link above… Read More »Listen as Albert Einstein Reads ‘The Common Language of Science’ 1941 | Open Culture
I was planning to post this yesterday, but for one thing or another I forgot… Anyway, yesterday Nicolaus Copernicus would have been celebrating his 540th birthday. Copernicus is well known for Heliocentrism, i.e. the idea… Read More »Copernicus celebrated – 540th Birthday Anniversary
Reblogged from Elliptical Answers to Why Winter Mornings Are So Long – NYTimes.com by John O’Neil. As the parent of teenage boys who have to be dragged out of bed on school days, I had been looking… Read More »Elliptical Answers to Why Winter Mornings Are So Long – Rebloged from NYTimes.com
A couple of years ago I had a look at the state of the TIOBE index that ranks the most popular programming languages. So has C# finally dethrone C++ as THE language of the year?… Read More »Programming Language Index – version 2013
Solar energy currently provides only a quarter of a percent of the planet’s electricity supply, but the industry is growing at staggering speed. Underlying this growth is a phenomenon that solar’s supporters call Swanson’s law,… Read More »The Swanson Effect
You are getting ready for the New Year’s party and cannot help to use a mirror to check that all is spot on. The tie is straight, the hair is tamed, the shoes are polished… Read More »Mirror mirror, right and left, up and down
