Posted in Comics, Education, English, Hands-on math & science on March 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
(Okay, so I chose that title because the pi-effect has worn out…)
I don’t remember where exactly, probably on one of the physics blogs in the Mixed States collection, but some time ago I found a link to this comic about the adventures of an inquisitive girl in a mysterious school. Forbidden woods, ghosts, strange events [...]
Posted in Nederlands, TASP on March 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Deze week een wiskundig gedicht, dat ik nog ken uit mijn wiskundeboek van de middelbare school (Getal en Ruimte). Met dank aan Peet die het in een reactie op het QED-gedicht suggereerde.
Op een bok
Te Siddeburen was een bok
die machtsverhief en worteltrok.
Die bok heeft onlangs onverschrokken
de wortel uit zichzelf getrokken
waarna hij zonder ongerief
zichzelf weer [...]
Posted in Math, Nederlands on March 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Hoera!
De wiskundemeisjes hebben maar liefst twee Dutch Bloggies gewonnen - voor best geschreven weblog en voor beste themaweblog.
Gefeliciteerd, dames!
(Ik voel me extra trots omdat ik anderhalf jaar geleden een mailtje van Ionica kreeg met de vraag hoe dat nou ging, zo’n weblog, en dat ze erover dacht ook te gaan bloggen, met een collega-wiskundemeisje…)
Posted in Crochet, English, Hands-on math & science, Math on March 21, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Because Wilfred asked and I liked the idea, here’s a double torus. Made from a single thread.
Posted in English, Music, TASP on March 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
It’s time for another spring edition of Tuesday Afternoon Science (and mathematics and education) Poetry.
So, as an exercise for the reader*: where is the scientific component in this poem?
Spring and Music
Spring, among her sylvan shades,
And the gladness of her glades,
Once in dreamy hours was straying,
Where sweet Music with her throngs
Of glad melodies and songs
In the [...]
Posted in Crochet, English, Hands-on math & science, Math on March 19, 2007 | 4 Comments »
As I mentioned in a comment to the post on the 3-4-5, my latest project in crochet is a so-called Seifert surface, a surface with a knot as its edge.
I came up with the idea from a picture of the Seifert surface of a trefoil I found here. A Moebius strip is another example of [...]
Posted in Education, English, Quantum, Science, Second-hand blogging, Sillyness on March 18, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The ScienceBloggers have written a load of posts on ‘basic ideas’ and now they’re having a competition to find out who is champion, Evolution or Pooper, Newton’s second law or Dark matter. From Uncertain Principles comes the following:
Also in Erdos subregional action, defending QED Conference champion Particle and star striker J.J. Thomson met up with [...]
Posted in Crochet, Education, Life, Nederlands on March 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
… zo spreek je het Engelse woordje “crochet” - haken in goed Nederlands - uit, weet ik sinds gisteren. Alsof het Frans is, of in elk geval Frans zoals uitgesproken door een Engelsman.
Net zoals Bucket klinkt als Bouquet, merkte mijn kamergenoot Bart op. Oja. Tuurlijk. Logisch.
Posted in Education, English, Hands-on math & science, Math, Qulogistics, Random 10s on March 14, 2007 | 12 Comments »
It’s Pi-day today!
Maybe they were preparing festivities… anyway, lately the number one search term for people coming to Qulog is Pi Song.
As a result, the stats on that post have gone up from maybe four every day to over yesterday!
There are seconds in a year (error is less than a percent).
You can ‘measure’ [...]
Posted in English, Qulogistics on March 14, 2007 | No Comments »
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