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Poor Man's Liquid Nitrogen
Liquid nitrogen is hard to get, and being someone with no connections and a wild look in his eye, I don’t think I could actually get my hands on any, so I have to settle for watching videos of t… more →
The Life of an English Major
Poor Man's Liquid Nitrogen
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asymptote wrote 1 year ago: Liquid nitrogen is hard to get, and being someone with no connections and a wild look in his eye, I … more →
Pictures of Other Planets
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asymptote wrote 1 year ago: While injecting my daily dose of Internet news, I learned something incredible: we now have what loo … more →
Hubble Finds a Mystery Object
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asymptote wrote 1 year ago: As is my habit, I was scanning through the news today, and came upon a story that really caught my a … more →
Virtual Chemistry Online
asymptote wrote 1 year ago: Last month, I wrote a post about my Virtual Chemistry simulator and promised that an online and down … more →
Virtual Chemistry
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asymptote wrote 1 year ago: If you’re interested, Virtual Chemistry can now be played with or downloaded here. A little wh … more →
SimHeart 3.0
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asymptote wrote 1 year ago: Some months ago, I wrote a series of posts about the behavior of my NetLogo heart simulation (namely … more →
Ethanol is Not the Answer!
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asymptote wrote 1 year ago: I listen to a lot of NPR, so, needless to say, I’ve been deluged lately with debates about ene … more →
E-cosystem
asymptote wrote 1 year ago: That’s probably about the cheesiest title I’ve ever come up with, but it captures the sp … more →
The Future of Neural Networks
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asymptote wrote 1 year ago: I found this video some time ago when I was searching YouTube for interesting demonstrations of neur … more →
Feeling Aged at Twenty
asymptote wrote 1 year ago: For a while now, I’ve been noticing a disturbing innner trend: I feel old. Very old. On some o … more →
A Theory of Consciousness
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asymptote wrote 1 year ago: Lately, I’ve been reading Oliver Sacks’s new-ish book Musicophilia. While it’s not … more →
Evolving Behavior
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asymptote wrote 1 year ago: Well, since my previous posts about my various NetLogo models have been so popular, I thought I … more →
Unexpected Consequences
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asymptote wrote 1 year ago: One of the things that’s always fascinated me the most about simulated evolution is the way in … more →
SimHeart -- Now Available for Download
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asymptote wrote 1 year ago: All right, as promised, I’ve finally figured out a way that people can download SimHeart to pl … more →
SimHeart 2.0
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asymptote wrote 1 year ago: It seems that every time I sit down to work on my heart-simulation project, I get a lot more done th … more →
The Trouble With Science Fiction
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asymptote wrote 1 year ago: Over the years, I’ve been developing an aversion to modern science fiction — both litera … more →
Wherefore Universe?
asymptote wrote 2 years ago: Today, as I sat around idly ruminating, a question which has often troubled me bubbled back up in my … more →
Life Imitates Art: A Somewhat Twisted Look at Parasites
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asymptote wrote 2 years ago: Everybody knows the story. It shows up in a lot of sci-fi movies: a secondary character gets attacke … more →
Memorizing the Periodic Table
asymptote wrote 2 years ago: Partly out of boredom, and partly out of irritation at never, ever knowing the atomic weight of a pa … more →
