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March 31st, 2008

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Different flame types of Bunsen Burner
  • Happy Bunsen Burner Day!
  • More cognitive tools for the Math Geek arsenal! Sourswinger has a great set of blogposts up covering tricks for arithmetic like multiplying and dividing large numbers.
  • It’s the laws of physics that aggravate you when peeling wallpaper, also price tags and tap.
  • A CNN Manager gives us a peek at what it’s like to have Asperger’s syndrom as someone who learned she had the condition at 48.
  • I scored 14 out of 20 questions on the BBC’s enlightening Senses Challenge, but I think I just guessed luckily at the ones I got right.
  • Physicists firing photons into space and being able to identify the individual ones that come back will lead to quantum space-communication.
  • Far from being nearly impossible, statistics show that Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak was nearly a statistical inevitability.
  • Burr Tool is an open-source software for making puzzles:

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    Burr Tool

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