Archive for the 'Improbable research' Category

The Same Old Song for the Same Old Fart

Saturday, January 13th, 2007

Happy birthday to meee,
happy birthday to meeee,
happy birthday dear Pietrooo,
happy birthday to meeeeeee!
I gave myself as a present another 30/30 in an exam… So good!

Quote of Today and a thanksgiving

Monday, January 8th, 2007

You should emulate your heros, but don’t carry it too far, especially if they are dead
And thanks to the 1402 unique visitors of this week…

Faith, Hope, Charity

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

Sun Tzu would be proud

Proliferation of…

Friday, December 29th, 2006

Nuclear weapons? Oh, no way!
Here I am to tell you the story of a little old Apple Macintosh, manifactured something like 1989. It was enhanced with an external hard disk capable of storing something like… Ehr… 20 MegaBytes? Mostly software. It was the era of the single-density floppy disks, 720 KiloBytes of stuff, no more.
Then […]

Colour and flavour

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

The Physicist: What if the human brain has reached a point where it is sensitive on a subatomic level, a level where matter can appear and disappear, where time can run backwards or forwards? I mean, who is to say what’s possible, what isn’t possible?
The Mathematician: What flavor of crazy kool-aid do they make you […]

Definitions Of Terms Commonly Used In Higher Math

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

Definitions of Terms Commonly Used in Higher Math
The following is a guide to the weary student of mathematics who is often confronted with terms which are commonly used but rarely defined. In the search for proper definitions for these terms we found no authoritative, nor even recognized, source. Thus, we followed the advice of mathematicians […]

Honor

Friday, May 5th, 2006

We will never forget our soldiers who died while accomplishing their oaths taken to our Fatherland.
Addio ragazzi, possiate riposare in pace, voi che per la pace e la libertà siete morti

Cats?

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

http://improbable.com/2006/05/01/cat-brains/

Dragon pet

Saturday, April 1st, 2006

Somebody is trying to create dragons and unicorns in lab
Nice! But I think they should be careful…
Everybody knows about the flame breathe of dragons ;P

Like a Prayer

Saturday, April 1st, 2006

Yet another post with an alluring title… But here I will not speak about the sexy Madonna…
http://improbable.com/2006/03/31/how-scientists-value-prayer/