Disco Ergo Sum

An effort to learn something new everyday

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Cavities

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Sugar-in-the-raw vs. white sugar came up at brunch today, so I decided to look into it. This was the most surprising sentence in the Wikiped...
Friday, May 6, 2011

Muphry's Law

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Browsing the "see also" list on Wikipedia's Occam's Razor page, I made a beeline for "Murphy's Law." Being ...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Acting you age, however you act

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I can't even vote on Mars Have you ever been told to "act your age"? You were probably doing something immature or foolis...
Friday, October 22, 2010

Occam's Razor

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Occam on a Wigu t-shirt So this guy, Ockham, never actually said, "the simplest explanation is usually the correct one." That i...
Friday, October 8, 2010

Time and Peanut Butter

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Turns out that a "jiffy" is an actual unit of time , though it has a different definitions depending on context, but it's usu...
Friday, October 1, 2010

GDP by State!

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GraphJam is an amusing site over at Cheez Burger (aka lolcats ). While usually breaking down things like  How Lady Gaga likes her steaks , ...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Horse Capital of the World

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There are five horse capitals of the world. Four of them are in the United States (the other is in France, go figure). I'm pretty happy...
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