Saturday, February 28, 2015

The Unit Circle

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Truth to tell, I was disappointed to find a really nice write-up on Wikipedia.  I was hoping that this was still arcane knowledge.  As far a...
Monday, February 23, 2015

An Abundance of Talent: the 2015 Austin Energy Regional Science Festival

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For the fourth time, I served as a judge for behavioral and social sciences in our local science fair.  Again, I met an array of talented a...
Sunday, February 22, 2015

The Problem of Cultural Patrimony

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From Agent Presse France  via Al-Arabiya online here   On February 18, 2015, news services (Reuters here ) reported that a group of a...
Saturday, February 14, 2015

Turn Left at Orion

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As with perhaps all enduring efforts, this book was written for the author himself. Even though – or perhaps because - Guy Consolmagno had ...
Monday, February 9, 2015

Great Bean Chocolate

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We often meet vendors at the Wheatsville Co-op and Whole Foods, but never have we seen one so busy.  It was hard to catch Great Bean Chocola...
Friday, February 6, 2015

The Hat Creek Pickle Company

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The Hat Creek Burger Company is a local chain of fast food restaurants.   One evening, I met one of the local coin club guys at Recycled Re...
Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Variations on Enigma

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Verifying secret information is a challenge.  After enjoying the movie Imitation Game, I went to the library for books on Bletchley Park a...
Saturday, January 31, 2015

Politics and the Inverse Square Law

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The farther you are from something, the less you know about. In physics, this applies to the force of gravity, to electro-static attraction...