We are trying to find a place to live in St.Paul, while living in New Orleans and Baltimore. This Friday we will actually be going to St.Paul to look at places, but we need to have a good list of places to look at when we arrive. To that end, we’ve been using some online [...]

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Simulations of real systems make it possible to test “what if” questions, and compare the results with what did happen. For example, I am working on a study in which a stimulus pulse turns on and off while a spiral wave rotates about an obstacle. We can ask, “What happened to the spiral wave following [...]

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TSO CREW MILANO

Originally uploaded by orticanoodles

What is it with spanish-speaking countries and anatomical heart artwork? I’m not complaining — I was happy to find this awesome specimen for today’s Hearty Friday.

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Okay, this is pretty much just for the programmers out there that are familiar with the LOLCATS phenomenon, but there’s an esoteric programming language called LOLCODE.
It made me lol for real. Here’s an example that prints the date followed by the beginning of the Fibonacci sequence:

IN MAI datetime GIMME date LIKE DATE
SO IM LIKE FIBBING [...]

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a collision

Originally uploaded by marcia.furman

It has been a crazy week, but I have a lot of post ideas saved up. Hopefully I’ll have some time to write them this weekend. I am 11 posts behind schedule!

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