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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008I’ve started a Darwin fan page on Facebook. This happened mostly because I’m bored, but also because I’m pretty distressed at the level of biological education possessed by a lot of Americans in power right now (cough cough George W. Bush cough cough). I’m also bothered by Ben Stein’s new hit job on […]
Gabriel’s Horn
Thursday, March 27th, 2008Or: How to fit an infinite surface area into a finite space, and how that relates to my student debt
Gabriel’s Horn, a/k/a Torricelli’s Trumpet
There is a three-dimensional mathematical figure known as Gabriel’s Horn which has an infinite surface area and a finite volume. You create it by graphing y=x^(-1) where x >or = to […]
Scientists determine that fish can count, tell difference between one fish and two fish. Difference between red fish and blue fish to be determined in phase two.
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008Boing Boing has an article up about North American Mosquito Fish being able to count, albeit in a really really rudimentary way. The money quote from the main article is from Professor Angelo Bisazza of the University of Padua, who said that the
“[The] fishes’ numerical abilities were actually on a par with the numerical […]
Good news and bad news.
Monday, September 24th, 2007Today was an inauspicious day for two reasons and an auspicious one for two other reasons. First, the bad news.
Bad News #1: The Bears lost to the Dallas Cowboys, 34-10. I was watching this game with various loved ones, and I hate to admit that I said the “F” word in front […]
Evolution, Creation, and Why Kirk Cameron Stinks
Monday, March 12th, 2007This column will appear appeared in the Georgetown Law Weekly on March 20, 2007.
Before coming to law school, I was a paleontology graduate student at the University of Michigan. I studied, specifically, the life and migration of woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius), and in retrospect was much, much cooler than torts. One thing we […]