Very pleased to see that the question/comment I sent to Keith Houston, the author of the excellent Shady Characters book. Here is the entry in his blog (the original is here): Miscellany № 42: ¡gnaborretni?… Read More »¡gnaborretni? – Reblog from Shady Characters
New year’s resolutions you can actually achieve: Don’t try to be a hero, just pick one book and read it Once, just once, go to bead at 9am. Do it on a Tuesday! Grow… Read More »Resolutions…
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 33,000 times in… Read More »2013 in review
Source: BBC News Magazine What were the most significant numbers of 2013? Several experts name their favourites, and explain why. David Spiegelhalter, Cambridge University: My number of the year is 7.3. This is the average response… Read More »The numbers of the year 2013
Indeed my dear readers, as you well know the end of the year is looming. A time to reflect about the last 12 months and the things that happened during that time… and what a… Read More »100 things we didn’t know last year
That is a bad mistake to make, then again it would not be the Grauniad, right?
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 24,000 views in 2012. If each… Read More »2012 in review at the Quantum Tunnel blog – Happy 2013
Finalmente un poco de tiempo para escribir algo para el blog, y en esta ocasión una gran oportunidad para contestar una pregunta que a inicio de la semana Jorge Soto, si de Moenia, me envió.… Read More »Un universo sin centro…
He’s Greek, she’s German…
Uno de los sueños más ambiciosos de los físicos es la descripción de todas las fuerzas físicas como un único conjunto de relaciones matemáticas, lo que se conoce comúnmente como unificación. Todos los fenómenos observados… Read More »Y ¿Qué es el Bosón de Higgs?