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A few years old, but here's some information on Girl Scout cookies and palm oil and two girl scouts who want to change it.
Wikipedia's article on palm oil.
On Sneaky Cards, which sounds like fun but which - despite the elaborate color coding - only has three cards to show.
Republican Governor Deliberately Spent Wisconsin Surplus To Pick Fight With Unions
While the rolling revolution(s) in the Middle East are just fascinating to me, China is a little concerned about them and worried they might get one of their own. This is perfectly sensible. They've invested a lot in the way things are now.
Here's an article on libraries doing away with the Dewey Decimal system.
Some critics, however, say the new system isn't as elegant as it sounds because it can bedevil readers looking for books that don't fit cleanly into a particular category.
Fair enough (I guess) but it's not like the Dewey Decimal system doesn't ever have that problem. ANY system is eventually going to have that problem, unless it's so specific that it's effectively useless.
MIT is apparently where you go if you want to make the most amazingly complex origami known to humanity.
Here are some scary graphs on incarceration.
Oh, and whales are back in NYC! I can't find the article I originally read this in, so I had to google for another.
Wikipedia's article on palm oil.
On Sneaky Cards, which sounds like fun but which - despite the elaborate color coding - only has three cards to show.
Republican Governor Deliberately Spent Wisconsin Surplus To Pick Fight With Unions
While the rolling revolution(s) in the Middle East are just fascinating to me, China is a little concerned about them and worried they might get one of their own. This is perfectly sensible. They've invested a lot in the way things are now.
Here's an article on libraries doing away with the Dewey Decimal system.
Some critics, however, say the new system isn't as elegant as it sounds because it can bedevil readers looking for books that don't fit cleanly into a particular category.
Fair enough (I guess) but it's not like the Dewey Decimal system doesn't ever have that problem. ANY system is eventually going to have that problem, unless it's so specific that it's effectively useless.
MIT is apparently where you go if you want to make the most amazingly complex origami known to humanity.
Here are some scary graphs on incarceration.
Oh, and whales are back in NYC! I can't find the article I originally read this in, so I had to google for another.
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Date: 2011-02-20 04:17 pm (UTC)Ten years or so ago, a guy and his seventeen year old homeschooled son wander into bldg 2 and ask to speak to a renown topologist. The teen turns out to be a math prodigy who has been applying himself to the math of origami. MIT promptly hires not only this kid but his father, and at 20 the kid becomes the youngest professor ever at MIT. This is the Erik Demaine they mention in the article. He kicked off the extreme origami craze there, because there is nothing like introducing math to a topic to make it unbearably cool to MIT students.
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Date: 2011-02-20 04:31 pm (UTC)MIT is awesome. That is all.