life in progress

Marťan alebo streetfighting physics

Pri príležitosti včerajšieho sviatku som si prečítala knihu The Martian (napísal Andy Weir). Dobré, rýchle, miestami vtipné čítanie o astronautovi, ktorého omylom nechali na Marse. I’ve been thinking about laws on Mars. Yeah, I know, it’s a stupid thing to think about, but I have a lot of free time. There’s an international treaty saying no country can lay claim to anything that’s…

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Surfovanie

the really big one Compressional waves are fast-moving, high-frequency waves, audible to dogs and certain other animals but experienced by humans only as a sudden jolt. They are not very harmful, but they are potentially very useful, since they travel fast enough to be detected by sensors thirty to ninety seconds ahead of other seismic waves. That is enough time…

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If Hermione Were The Main Character In “Harry Potter” Dôležité nie je sa matematiku nabifľovať, ale získať kultúru myslenia – ukazuje sa, že aj v Trende trochu prekrúcajú a nedávajú autorizovať prepisy rozhovorov zúčastneným stranám 2015 Gates annual letter nedávny výstup na El Capitan (my sme si tú stenu pozerali iba zdola) – toto je neskutočné (inak ten chlap má na jednej…

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fields2014

Fieldsova medaila po prvýkrát pre ženu

Dostala ju Maryam Mirzakhani z Iránu. The Fields Medal is given every four years, and several can be awarded at once. The other recipients this year are Artur Avila of the National Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics in Brazil and the National Center for Scientific Research in France; Manjul Bhargava of Princeton University; and Martin Hairer of the University…

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Slovenka žijúca v Belgicku, u ktorej som an jeseň pár dní bývala počas konferencie, Marta Gal, organizuje v máji cykloakciu Aby sa deti rodili s láskou. Gabriel’s Horn – má nekonečný povrch ale konečný objem prečo UPS dodávky neodbočujú doľava UPS engineers found that left-hand turns were a major drag on efficiency. Turning against traffic resulted in long waits in…

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deti objavujú matematiku samy a baví ich to horenie zápalky vo veeeľmi spomalenom zábere: toto: Let me break down parenting for you, and why it’s so hard. Before you have kids, you think it’s the diapers or the late nights or the mortification of trading in your car for a minivan. But really, it’s the mind games. It’s the daily,…

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at the movies, the women are gone I want to stress this again: In many, many parts of the country right now, if you want to go to see a movie in the theater and see a current movie about a woman — any story about any woman that isn’t a documentary or a cartoon — you can’t. You cannot. There are not any. You…

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100 rokov, 94 kníh – zaujímavé už len porovnanie posledných 20 a prvých 20 rokov For this blog I plan, among other things, to read and review every novel to reach the number one spot on Publishers Weekly annual bestsellers list, starting in 1913.  Beyond just a book review, I’m going to provide some information on the authors and the time…

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