Category Archives: The wonderful world of science

Puzzle again.

And another one, just ’cause we’re bored: 1405006117752879898543142606244511569936384000000000

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Today’s puzzle

No reward for figuring this one out (well, maybe a chocolate.)

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97, 101, 103, 107, 109, …

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I’m an ape, dammit!

Dawkins fanboys and fangirls can have a ball at Salon. Note the image in top. Subsctiption (costs money) or ad-reading (free, but annoying) required.

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I say, was that test double-blind?

Stumbled over a blog called Skeptico. Surprisingly, it’s a skeptic’s blog, meaning that it discusses dubious topics like astrology, psychic ability, magig/religious healing and other phenomena that, if true, can’t be explained by the body of knowledge and method …

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Einstein@Home

Einstein@Home is yet another distributed computer effort thingy. This one looks for gravitational waves. Not gravity waves, which is something completely different and well-understood and should have been called buoyancy waves. However, it’s impossible to spell buoyancy.

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Livsverk.

Eg og Joachim gjorde litt triviell matte, og kom fram til at eitt livsverk er om lag 45 årsverk.

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Forskeliforsk.

Dette er ein nokså gamal artikkel no, men likevel: Det er ganske så utruleg kva ein kan forska på i eit halvt år av og til. (Og det seier eg.)

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Venuspassasje!

Venus har passert. Fint syn, men ikkje heilt lettsjåeleg. Pøttsann. Så er det over, og verda består.

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Uvitande journalistar.

Eg blir faen så provosert. Er kunnskap om realfag og teknologi liksom unødvendig i dagens samfunn?

Det er lov å ikkje lika realfag. Det trengst faktisk folk som ikkje har hovudfordjupninga si i realfag. Det trengst folk som har meir …

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