Science
- Why a walk in the park is good for your brain
- 10 of the world’s strangest plant species
- Attempting to publish criticism of a scientific paper
Computing
- Why “quick and dirty” software development isn’t quick
- Macintosh changing its gamma value (why Apple is changing display brightness)
- Programmer turned lawyer turned programmer
Math
- Famous math majors
- Getting a fair toss from a biased coin
- Notes on the Wilson-Hilferty and Camp-Paulson normal approximations
Just for fun
- Amazon.com Tuscan milk review parody of The Raven
- Visualizing science fiction time lines
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Bill the Lizard 09.08.09 at 13:53
Thanks for the referral, John. I also enjoyed the article on famous math majors. Quite a few surprises on the list. I suppose it’s a little too well-known that Lewis Carroll was a mathematician for him to make the cut.