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Physics question
Can a wind-driven vehicle travel down-wind faster than the wind? Doc says yes.… more →
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Physics question
Marcel wrote 3 weeks ago: Can a wind-driven vehicle travel down-wind faster than the wind? Doc says yes. … more →
Bad idea
Marcel wrote 1 month ago: At least that’s what I think today. “The Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab creates insi … more →
Links
Marcel wrote 1 month ago: The headline, with my emphasis, is Bagged salad safety: Rising threat of food-borne illness lurks in … more →
Snorkels, et al.
Marcel wrote 3 months ago: Video appears in paper magazines – ad-blocking glasses soon to follow, I hope. Even after more … more →
Never mind
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Marcel wrote 4 months ago: The (otherwise very good) cell phone company has been badgering us for weeks about some kind of voic … more →
Two short observations
Marcel wrote 4 months ago: So You Want to Buy an American Car? Well, buying American is complicated. Here’s my proposed r … more →
Reading, science, math, politics
Marcel wrote 5 months ago: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2009 Results are out. Scientists see no dietary benefit to replacing c … more →
Coincidence?
Marcel wrote 5 months ago: Christians protest ‘Dante’s Inferno’ while giant luminous squids over-fly Paris! P … more →
Words, numbers, and pictures
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Marcel wrote 5 months ago: At the store the other day I scanned the shelves for prunes. It took a few extra seconds, my eyes fi … more →
It comes in pints?
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Marcel wrote 6 months ago: Why? It’s a really bad idea for NASA to go back to pounds and feet. Metric road signs would be … more →
Good idea
Marcel wrote 7 months ago: As soon as I read the words solar-powered attic fan I knew it was a good idea. … more →
Elementary
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Marcel wrote 7 months ago: A nice little theorem. More here. … more →
Burglar's tools
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Marcel wrote 7 months ago: …including a set of magical “hex” keys In the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, a … more →
The sun rises, the sun sets
Marcel wrote 7 months ago: Does the Earth go around the Sun because it’s constrained by the law of gravity? Not exactly. … more →
Adblock Plus filters
Marcel wrote 7 months ago: “I kind of went overboard with it. But you have to admit, it’s pretty amazing, right? … more →
Sheep with LEDs on their backs
Marcel wrote 8 months ago: Extreme Sheep LED Art – Better than crop circles. h/t … more →
Telephone
Marcel wrote 8 months ago: My wife went downtown and got our land-line telephone disconnected the other day. The person behind … more →
Find the off switch
Marcel wrote 9 months ago: or at least the mute button …the only alternative is to understand everything that’s goi … more →
