Fun for today.

3-body orbit applet: This is an applet for displaying animations of n body orbits. Play around with it… It’s even more fun than watching goldfish!

Argh!

Science can be funny, too. The Culture of Chemistry: Quantum jokes?: Q: Why won’t Heisenberg’s operators live in the suburbs? A: They don’t commute. I wonder if it’s time I dragged out my math jokes… A mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer walked into a bar one day, and… :alien:

The end of summer

“Unattended baggage will be sold as slaves” is what I thought the loudspeakers were saying yesterday as we unloaded our stuff at the curb of the airport in Cincinnati. I think I have “wishful hearing,” combining what was actually said with a silly joke plaque I’ve seen in restaurants — “Unattended children will be sold Continue reading The end of summer