Goodwood 2009
These are some amazing car pictures form Goodwood festival of speed 2009.There’s a nice picture of the Ferrari 599xx and some of the F1 cars we saw when we visited the factory last year....
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Poem for Today
I don’t know how many people in the world want Legos, Greek science, and anagrams mixed with their poetry, but if you do, then The Great Order of the Universe by Christian Bök is...
Balanced Ternary Clock
Here’s a short clip of a balanced ternary clock I wrote using the MATLAB class I posted the other day. In this clock, the green dots represent 1, the red dots represent –1, and...
Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse
You’ve probably heard that Betelgeuse has recently been showing signs of instability. This might be a sign that it’s going to become a supernova. Yesterday, Ctein considered the question of how bright it would...
Balloon Flowers
We’ve had an interesting flower in our garden for the last couple of years called the balloon flower. You can see how it got that name from this picture: That’s what the blossom looks...
Add Sugar and Sell It
For the 4th, Stephen Fry posted a lecture he gave a while back that tries to capture what it is that makes America unique. A lot of people have tried that in the past,...
Mulberries
Every year in June, one of the trees in our yard starts shaking. If you look closely, you’ll see that it is full of squirrels and birds. You’ll see bluejays, goldfinches, rose breasted grosbeaks,...
4th of July
It’s not the Boston Pops, but here are a few pictures from the Lexington fireworks last night.
Statistics
Arthur Benjamin recently gave a TED talk about changing the focus of math education. The short version is that he thinks the focus should be on getting kids to a solid understanding of statistics...
