Archive for August, 2012

A logical puzzle

Monday, August 27, 2012 13:55 No Comments

I’ve been remiss in writing for this blog because I’ve been busy with the courses I’ve been taking on Coursera.org. Currently I’m taking both Introduction to Finance and Algorithms. The Algorithms class is particularly challenging for me and involves significant work because there’s a programming assignment each week. It’s taught by Robert Sedgewick of Princeton, [...]

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“Curiosity has landed” video

Wednesday, August 8, 2012 14:20 No Comments

Ok, this totally breaks this page’s formatting, but what the heck. Forget the Olympics. This is the greatest spectacle going on right now and it’s not even on Earth. Yes it’s a CGI rendition instead of real imagery but what do you expect about something going on on Mars? The landing procedure is the stuff [...]

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Recent Interesting Science Articles (July 2012)

Thursday, August 2, 2012 13:33 No Comments

July 2012 has been a less awesome, insofar as science articles go. I guess things do slow down in the summer. This isn’t the first article about empathy for humans as displayed in dogs that has appeared in this blog, and it won’t be the last! This article from The Economist covers experiments performed to [...]

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