Recall in part one I mentioned the root spiral and prime numbers. I won’t go into the history of how they came about (other than mention that Mr. Ulam was really bored) but I’ll point out some things of them.
Recall in part one I mentioned the root spiral and prime numbers. I won’t go into the history of how they came about (other than mention that Mr. Ulam was really bored) but I’ll point out some things of them.
Since I mentioned some spinning last month, it’s time to take a look at number spirals.
This is something I did over 9 years ago, which I did shortly after it was discovered that Saturn’s north pole has a hexagon. It turns out one can produce similar affects in a bucket of water and here are…
My Brother is up in Canada (and I am not) and I visited him over the weekend recently.
A while ago I was at a mattress store. On a desk there was a card that stated the following: Fact: The average mattress doubles in weight every 10 years due to mites, skin cells, oils and related debris. My…
My brother found out there was a dino riders movie in the works. He said to himself “self, you can write a better script than anyone in Hollywood for a movie about guys who ride on dinosaurs”. So during a…
One day when I was walking to my car, the door handle snapped off in my hand. So when I got a chance, I went to the nearby car parts store and picked up a replacement. The replacement was black,…
I had visited my parent’s house this summer. Within hours of arriving, dad put me to work ripping out the walls of some rooms for renovation. When ripping up the pink shag carpet that came with the house I found…
Most people hunt for Bigfoot in the wrong way. Highly funded hunts are also terrible at this. They blow their budget on video editing (I’m looking at you Discovery Channel!). They’ll record thousands of hours of people staring into a…
After teaching undergrads for a few years, here’s a write up of several interactions I’ve had with them.