The Last Bastion of Imperial Units
Foxtrot shows the importance of metric for some football players
Date: December 26th, 2008
Bzzzzzzz
Buzzwords of 2008
Missing from the list is blogohedron, “popularized” by … me (sort of), so really it’s not a surprise. I just happened to see Brian Switek using it at Laelaps, and acknowledging Blake Stacey for it, and Blake crediting me in the comments (and, BTW, the link is a good summary of a [...]
It Was a Dark and Stormy Experiment
Mr. Faraday’s (most excellent) experimental researches in electricity (1831)
I started to investigate Faraday’s writings while working on a post about Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s novel The Coming Race, which quotes Faraday to justify B-L’s fictional source of energy, vril. This led me back through Faraday’s monumental collection of researches on electricity, a collection of over 25 [...]
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