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The Bookworm And The Encyclopedias

The Bookworm And The Encyclopedias A simple math puzzle. A set of 10 encyclopedias is sitting on a bookshelf in left-to-right numerical order. Each single volume contains 1,000 pages.     A bookworm eats its way directly and linearly through them in a str ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 22 2009 - 8:04pm

St. Louis Needs AB Negative Blood

From the Rugbyologist's blog:  St. Louis Hero Needed There is a 14 month old child in St. Louis in desperate need of an AB negative blood donor. Hospitals in St. Louis are in desperate need of AB negative blood. If you have this rare blood type, pleas ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 19 2009 - 5:47am

Morning Science Quote

Science grows through accretion, but becomes potent through distillation.- James P. Sethna, Entropy, Order Parameters, and Complexity ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jun 17 2009 - 6:00am

Sometimes we all need to just stop and...

I was outside the target demographic of this dance (though I can moonwalk like no one's business) but if I were going to pick up a retro dance, this would be a cool one. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 17 2009 - 2:16pm

If only we all saw things like Hank...

My apologies, Kim... ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Jun 17 2009 - 3:52pm

Morning Science Quote

Light is the principal means by which we are able to transmit and receive information from objects around us and throughout the universe. - Raymond Serway, Physics for Scientists and Engineers ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jun 18 2009 - 6:04am

Morning Science Quote

Electrical arcs stabbed through the violet dusk. Heated solutions groaned toward their boiling points. Bubbles rose helically through luminous green liquids. Miniature explosions occurred in distant corners of the facility, sending up showers of glass as ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jun 19 2009 - 6:00am

Morning Science Quote

No one disturbs his fellow men with a new view unpunished.- Ernest Mach, "A New Sense", quoted in Edmund Bolles, Galileo's Commandment, p. 27 ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jun 20 2009 - 6:00am

Save The Date: AAAS Symposium On Communicating Science to the Public August 17th 2009

If you happen to be in the San Francisco metropolitan area the week of August 16th, 2009 and can't get enough science, I'll be emcee'ing a symposium on communicating science to the public at the 90th Annual Meeting of the AAAS pacific region ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 22 2009 - 12:43pm

The Bookworm And The Encyclopedias- The Solution

The Bookworm And The Encyclopedias- The Solution Last Monday I posed a simple math puzzle: A set of 10 encyclopedias is sitting on a bookshelf in left-to-right numerical order. Each single volume contains 1,000 pages.     A bookworm eats its way directly ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 22 2009 - 5:25pm