From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space


Monday Night Irish Class, May 21, 2012
Irish
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Rang Gaeilge, 21ú lá Mí na Bealtaine 2012

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The matter that's not not not there
hourglass nebula, eye
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Our local dark matter stages a comeback

Technical details at On the local dark matter density

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Minnesota Scottish Fair and Highland Games
Davidson Tartan (ancient)
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Addressing Birthers
Titanic
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Turning the Tables and Outright Mockery

Obscure joke
math, Euler
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Unitarians

Protest Sign
Guinness Dark Side
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Why time travel enthusiasts are the world’s most patient protestors

Physics quote of the day
physics, Feynman
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"The challenge of teaching Quantum Mechanics is to ensure that students know which is the correct way to be completely confused by it."
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Monday Night Irish Class, May 14, 2012
Irish
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Rang Gaeilge, 14ú lá Mí na Bealtaine 2012

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Dark Matter vs. Modified Gravity
saturn
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A Trialogue

"...how the sausage is made...."

Irish Workshop, April 21, 2012
Irish
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Ceardlann Gaeilge, 21ú lá mí Aibreáin 2012

Verbal Particles
Present tense, also past tense for dependent forms of irregular verbs.An / Ní / go / nach
Past tense for regular verbs, also past tense for independent forms of irregular verbs.Ar / Níor / gur / nar
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Monday Night Irish Class, May 7, 2012
Irish
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Rang Gaeilge, 7ú lá Mí na Bealtaine 2012

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Dark matter ruled out? Not so fast....
saturn
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Milky Way Satellites and Dark Matter

Monday Night Irish Class, April 30, 2012
Irish
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Rang Gaeilge, 30ú lá mí Aibreáin 2012

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Remember "How to Lie with Statistics" ?
Titanic
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The author ... worked for the tobacco industry to mock studies of the risks of smoking statistics.

From Sr. Edith, OSB

Season 1, Episode 1
plane, old tools, woodwork, galoot
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.... of The Woodwright's Shop. The introduction:



From Get Ready for Roy!

Tolkien note
Windycon09
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Shadowfax: A Fantasy Horse.

....his name is best translated into modern English as 'shadowy-hair': 'fax' is an archaic English word for hair and has nothing to do with telephones, it appears in some British placenames e.g. Halifax

Not a beetle
Windycon09
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Cochineal Taxonomy Fail

More important, why this matters.

"Why does does pornography need copy editing?"
Guinness Dark Side
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"Readers can't find their particular fetishes if they're spelled wrong."

From Is That an Apostrophe in Your Pocket?

Monday Night Irish Class, April 16, 2012
Irish
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Rang Gaeilge, 16ú lá mí Aibreáin 2012

Labhairt an marfóir Plútóin ag Ollscoil Minnesota ar an Déardaoin. http://tinyurl.com/7xw4by3. Bhí mé agus mo iníon altrama ansin. An-spéisiúil.

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Debunking Hollywood History
Titanic
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Five Titanic myths spread by films, from Skepchick

Contrary to the popular interpretation the White Star Line never made any substantive claims that the Titanic was unsinkable - and nobody really talked about the ship's unsinkability until after the event....
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