Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.
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I'm tidying up my bookmarks, and there's this leftover pile of stuff that doesn't fit neatly into any of my folders—something like the line of pandruff that's left over when you sweep the floor.
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Kolb, Matarrese, Notari, and Riotto have submitted a paper to peer review that offers an alternative to dark energy as the explanation for the observed expansion rate of the universe.
"The hypothesis of dark energy is extremely fascinating," explains Padova's
Antonio Riotto, "but on the other hand it represents a serious problem. No
theoretical model, not even the most modern, such as supersymmetry or string
theory, is able to explain the presence of this mysterious dark energy in
the amount that our observations require."
(Thanks to kottke.org.) posted: 12:30:36 PM |
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Gary Younge on McDonald's, Apple Dippers, and the its potential acceleration of consolidation among apple farmers:
All of this—the pesticides, the storage, the waiting, the
machinery—makes apples rather capital-intensive. In order to make
money, you must first invest heavily, and then be prepared to wait a good
while—in precarious conditions, governed as much by the weather as by
inflation or interest rates—for your return. The larger your business,
the easier it is to weather those storms, both figurative and actual.
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Retro cool vintage TV spot for Rock 'em Sock em Robots.
His block is knocked off!?!
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