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Mathematics is remarkably effective in describing the physical world in part due to isomorphisms, relationships between concepts that reveal a similar underlying structure. In 1935 Charles Vernon Theis was working on groundwater flow, a subject with little mathematical treatment at the time. He thought that perhaps a well tapping a confined aquifer could be described [...]
Early one morning, citizens in northern Norway awoke to an amazing sight – a giant glowing... Read More »
Memory foam refers only to the “viscoelastic” behaviour exhibited by... Read More »
It was the summer of 2005, and my student house was stiflingly hot. Fueled by a combination of too many... Read More »
Emily’s Trees are made by a girl with a passion for nature and a love of jewelry who decided to combine these... Read More »
Fermilab PR just released a scan of a coded message they received a year ago, and are asking for... Read More »
While personally I find memory foam to be an amazing sleeping surface, there are... Read More »
Well, now we’re getting somewhere with the strange letter Fermilab received.... Read More »
I decided to modify the system to run off a garden hose, for increased reliability and to prevent late... Read More »
In winter during the late afternoon before settling down to roost, flocks of thousands... Read More »
Several people have asked me if I have managed to quantify the performance of this system. I ran a few quick numbers... Read More »
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