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Archive of entries posted on 29th March 2008

“Cat Ownership Correlated With Heart Health”

Yesterday evening, through a bizarre set of circumstances, our front door was left open for about three hours without us realizing it. Our three pampered and indoor cats reacted to this in various ways… Oliver Bert-tholomew Purrington (the youngest and smartest) came upstairs to let us know about it, and when he was unable to [...]

“Doomsday fears spark lawsuit over collider”

Sorry, but I don’t buy it. In my work with compression theory, I learned a lot about probability. If any of these doomsday scenarios were possible, they would have happened somewhere in the universe already — probably a lot of somewheres — and science would have seen some evidence of them. Like most good scientists, [...]

The Musical Theory of Icy Sidewalks

If you don’t C-sharp, you’ll B-flat.