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BASEBALL AND FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLES—-CONTINUED.
BASEBALL AND FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLES. I posted here about the theory that what seems to be a table is “mostly emptiness together with sparsely interspersed particles rapidly rushing about; hence tables and other such common-sense objects do not exist….there are no … Continue reading
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SOME THINGS BIRDS PERCEIVE.
SOME THINGS BIRDS PERCEIVE. Jonathan Rosen reviewed two books in the Wall Street Journal (June 29) which have intriguing titles: BIRD SENSE: WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE A BIRD by Tim Birkhead and WHAT THE ROBIN KNOWS by Jon Young. … Continue reading
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MANYPEEPLIA UPSIDOWNIA.
MANYPEEPLIA UPSIDOWNIA. Years ago I saw—and was delighted by—Edward Lear’s drawing of the plant species manypeeplia upsidownia at an exhibit at Harvard. Now, Harvard Magazine (July-August, 2012) has an article by Christopher Reed on an exhibit at the Houghton Library … Continue reading
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ENDURING LOVE.
ENDURING LOVE. It seems to me that this report on new scientific research should inspire a lyric poet. The Economist gave me a lead to this article in the Telegraph. Scientists at the University of Tubingen describes the fossils of … Continue reading
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GUINNESS AND THE HISTORY OF STATISTICS.
GUINNESS AND THE HISTORY OF STATISTICS. Guinness made another major contribution to science. W.S. Gosset, one of the great statisticians of all time, worked for Guinness in Dublin from 1899 to 1935. This wikipedia article on Gosset tells how he … Continue reading
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BUBBLES IN BEER AND THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS.
BUBBLES IN BEER AND THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS. The research into the Guinness bubbles is not the first time that bubbles in beer have been linked with a scientific breakthrough. I remembered that a Nobel Prize in physics had … Continue reading
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A MATHEMATICAL BREAKTHROUGH ON THE BUBBLES IN GUINNESS.
A MATHEMATICAL BREAKTHROUGH ON THE BUBBLES IN GUINNESS. This article from the technology review site published by MIT (May 28, 2012) is captioned “Irish Mathematicians Solve The Guinness Sinking Bubble Problem”. It begins: “One of the more intriguing conundrums in … Continue reading
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DO GUINNESS BUBBLES SINK?
DO GUINNESS BUBBLES SINK? The wikipedia article says: “A long time subject of bar conversations is the Guinness cascade, where the gas bubbles appear to travel downwards in a pint glass of Guinness.” One of the subjects of the bar … Continue reading
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GUINNESS—THE POUR.
GUINNESS—THE POUR. On our trip to Ireland last year we confirmed our belief in the health benefits of Guinness. We also learned something about how Guinness is served. There should be a wait until the Guinness head forms and it … Continue reading
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GROWING A FLOWER FROM THE AGE OF WOOLLY MAMMOTHS.
GROWING A FLOWER FROM THE AGE OF WOOLLY MAMMOTHS. This article reports on the success of researchers in growing a plant from a fruit that was over 32,000 years old. Fruit tissue was placed in a test tube of nutrients. … Continue reading
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