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Today's "here's a solution, now you go find a problem for it" effort brought to you by Palatin Technologies
'I see a lot of couples in my practice who don't know how to relax,' says Leonore Tiefer, a professor of psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine. 'That's fine - it's a big asset to them in their corporate lifestyle, where they can work 80 hours a week. They're trained to multi-task. Well, it doesn't seem that that is really doable when it comes to sex. And they're angry about that: they need it to be doable because they only have their five minutes.'
Librarians and other well-organised people, the line forms to the right...
Sweden now has the letter W in its alphabet.
The few Swedish words that use 'W' have generally been borrowed from other languages such as "watt," "walkie-talkie" and the "World Wide Web" and have so far always been lumped under the 'V' section in dictionaries.
Sweden is called "Sverige" in Svedish and its language is named "Svenska." So now it can be called Sweden and they can speak Swedish.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/games/803d/
Hmmm. Must be a use for these. A sign maybe...
Lots of institutions offer a watered-down science course called something like Physics for Poets. I vaccilate between two views on this: I despise the under-valuing and trivialising of important ideas, but I love the idea of making fundamental science more accessible to the general population.
There are some interesting opinions here and here
www.muller.lbl.gov/PffP provides a Physics for Future Presidents course (I guess that "Physics for Dummies" was already taken).
Things that are hidden but in plain view
http://www.blumpy.org/inbrain3d/
Not sure where the extra information is coming from?
An interesting film made up entirely of symbols from public signs.
http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
10 science facts every school leaver should know.
The University of Central Oklahoma will be the first university in the state powered totally by wind energy.
Now that should make for a good Uni Revue.
Researchers in the United States and France believe ultra thin layers of graphite, or graphene, may be the basis for new electronic devices.
In other news, crayons are great for backup.
What better thing to do with a quarter of a tonne of spuds, than make a massive potato battery?
one of Wikipedia's highlights
Six emoticons, built as cushions.
Lovely. http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/ridibundus/
A great essay about a cow. For a civil service exam.
Any explanations happily accepted.
Perhaps this helps?
Mathematics is a rather nice way to view of the world, but sadly some people are just fooled by it. My most annoying personal experience in this was a teacher I had who went to great lengths to tell me how the Greeks built the Parthenon with a specially curved base so it looked straight to the eye (she was never able to explain why that would work, or where the eye was supposedly located, but "it's all mathematics"). When I finally visited the Parthenon, I realised she had no idea what she was on about:
She also fell for the old "golden mean" myth about paintings, and pine tree branches etc etc.
So here is a site that takes apart some of the Fibonacci nonsense. Oh, and there are some nice pictures too. One in particular.
