Category Archives: Science

Anything technical or science related.

Satogaeri to Imazu, Part 2: The Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum

Posted on August 4, 2009 by admin

Except for my quest to find an internet connection, the first few days here in Imazu were pretty uneventful. Usually we’re too jet-lagged to do much anyway, so it’s fine with us. Yesterday though, we took a trip to Fukui … Continue reading →

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How to get 92 heads in a row, pt. 2

Posted on July 22, 2008 by admin

Two posts ago I showed how many coin flips it would take in order to have a 98% confidence of getting 92 heads in a row (à la Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead). The answer turns out to be \(3.874\times … Continue reading →

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How to get 92 heads in a row

Posted on July 19, 2008 by admin

A couple of posts ago I talked about how laughably improbable it would be to get 92 heads in a row on a fair coin. To sum up, the probability is: The probability of this happening is so abysmally low … Continue reading →

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People are predictably irrational in actions involving uncertainty

Posted on June 15, 2008 by admin

I ran across this page that is an outline for a lecture given by a professor of statistics at Berkeley. The title of his talk is “The top ten things that math probability says about the real world”, but he … Continue reading →

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Genetic Super Mice

Posted on November 3, 2007 by admin

Since it was on major news and aggregate sites yesterday, I can pretty much assume that all of the internet has seen yesterday’s story on the super mouse. Basically, researchers have found a way to genetically alter mice so that … Continue reading →

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i ^ i ^ i ^ … ?

Posted on October 25, 2007 by admin

Today on the internet I saw the calculation for i^i, where i is the square root of -1. It can be solved pretty easily using Euler’s formula, where any number z in the complex plane can be expressed as \(\textstyle{}\) … Continue reading →

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answer to the ESP test

Posted on December 4, 2006 by admin

Is I mentioned in the earlier post, I would post the answer later. Most people that were kind enough to comment on it also gave the correct answer. I thought the trick was pretty sneaky, so I wrote an email … Continue reading →

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Japan making the Bomb

Posted on November 30, 2006 by admin

Reading this news article piqued my interest. What I found interesting is not that Japan’s foreign minister proclaimed that Japan was capable of producing a nuclear weapon should it wish to, but that such a declaration was even necessary. Japan … Continue reading →

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The secret of ESP

Posted on September 1, 2006 by admin

I saw a link to this ESP test and on a whim checked it out. Try the test a few times to see how accurate it is. Then, see if you can figure it out. It had me stumped at … Continue reading →

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Economics of mass transit

Posted on August 31, 2006 by admin

I ran across this article that discusses the economic reality of why people in America don’t use the public transportation. I find it meaningful because he address the value of the commuter’s time, which he purports to be the most … Continue reading →

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