Encounter with the Infinite: How Did the Minimally Trained, Isolated Srinivasa Ramanujan, with Little More than an Out-of-Date Elementary Textbook, Anticipate Some of the…
Tag: science
Monday Tidbits to Start Your Week Off
Here is a hodge podge of reading links I have been saving in my tidbits folder for you: Astronomers strike gold – and platinum…
Tidbits for Your Weekend
I have been collecting links for about a month now, some of these you may have already seen but enjoy the ones you have not yet read:
Pan Narrans
“The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens (‘wise man’). In any case it’s an arrogant and bigheaded thing to…
xkcd: Landing, or How to Land on but not really Harpoon a Periodic Comet
Wed 11.12.14 – xkcd nicely sums up today’s Philae landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Other news sources report some very happy folks at the European…