I do not actually remember dad bringing my first real 2 wheeler home, but I definitely remember learning to ride it. I had some bricks piled up at 2 ends of a smooth field. My bike was a bit big for me, and I needed the bricks to help me climb up on the seat! [...]
Sorry. I am not very inspired these days. I think it is the high humidity and heat levels. (and no air conditioning in my suite)
An age old problem. How to choose a good marriage partner. One method involves mathematics. Suppose you decide to marry, and to select your life partner you will interview at most 100 candidate spouses. The interviews are arranged in random order, and you have no information about candidates you haven’t yet spoken to. After each [...]
The How Stuff Works site has published an article called What’s the most dangerous place on earth? What is interesting (and sad) is that the main reason a place is considered dangerous is not the climate, or the presence of dangerous critters, but rather the presence of dangerous humans. Grandpa Richard continues to bemoan the [...]
Grandpa Richard cannot resist good science stories and photos. Over at Wired.com today is a post about evidence of times when asteroids have hit our Earth. Really neat photos accompany the text. Could it happen again? Have you seen the movies portraying such an event?
A relevant question for a very much single Grandpa Richard, today’s relationship section in the Globe and Mail asks the above question. Take the survey at this page. The survey will only take you a minute. 7 actual topic questions and 3 questions about you. To give you a sample of the responses, 31% of [...]
Interesting post on Slashdot explaining how the Earth’s period of habitability is coming to an end soon. Well, soon on a cosmological timescale. As they say on Stargate, we need to start considering an alpha site we can move some of us to.
