Scientific Notation

Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 3rd Sep 2006 12:23 UTC (New Mobile Computing)

5 Jul 2008

What is the future of programming? I retain a romantic belief in the potential of scientific revolution. To recite one example, the invention of Calculus provided a revolutionary language for the development of Physics.

Call of the wild (California Aggie)

3 Jul 2008

Vocal repertoires, song notation, sound recordings and acoustic signals. From the sound of his academic vocabulary, one could easily mistake Peter Marler for a professor of music. While he is not one in the conventional sense, many consider him to be the pioneering professor of nature's music.

1892 ledger helps answer questions at Barnum Museum (New Haven Register)

30 Jun 2008

BRIDGEPORT - The Barnum Museum has a collection of thousands of artifacts ranging from the scholarly to the tawdry, just like the displays impresario P.T. Barnum showcased at Barnum's American Museum in New York. But that begs the question: Where did all this stuff come from?