Interesting piece about the "vampirism-porphyria connection" or lack of one: The Straight Dope.
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
But Lizzie Borden being acquitted is the bestest part. It's like Madeleine Smith -- you know damned well she did it. Both ladies got off because girls just didn't DO things like that. Hooray for the double standard.
Huh. Never heard of Madeleine Smith. Sounds a lot like Strong Poison, though, doesn't it?
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Because of Emily, I'm reading (off-and-on while doing other things) transcripts from Lizzie Borden's trial. And, no, I didn't know she was acquitted. Or about E.E. Cummings.
Thing is, 2-5 really is impossible in the set of natural numbers (the set is closed under addition and multiplication, but not under subtraction or division).
This SO makes my head hurt.
This shouldn't amuse me, but it does: Kasparov hit over head with chessboard.
Thing is, 2-5 really is impossible in the set of natural numbers (the set is closed under addition and multiplication, but not under subtraction or division).
Ooh. I know what that means! My mathematical education hasn't completely disappeared.
Ahem.
puts on math hat, which is strangely turban-like
There are several... aw hell, it just means that while you can add a natural number (1 and up, or in some definitions 0 and up, whole numbers only) to another and the result will be another natural number, and the same is true about multiplication, the same is not true for subtraction or division.
Um... here for definitions of the different sets, here for an explanation of the whole "closed under addition" thing.
I get it! Yay!
Phew.
Oh, and when my dad gave the Tao of Physics, I rolled my eyes and paraphrased the encyclopedia entry, like I was supposed to.
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Been Working To Expectation Since 1979