Posted by ungraspiness
Fri, 30 Dec 2005 23:11:00 GMT
Netherlands: Student unearths Einstein paper BBC – August 21, 2005

The handwritten manuscript titled “Quantum theory of the monatomic ideal gas” was dated December 1924.
Here’s the story
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Posted by ungraspiness
Thu, 29 Dec 2005 00:21:00 GMT
The Spiral Galaxy M74 – also known as Messier Object 74 or NGC 628 , is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1780, who related his discovery to Charles Messier to be categorized. The galaxy is also listed by Lord Rosse as one of 14 “spiral or curvilinear nebulae” discovered before 1850.

M74 lies at a distance from Earth of about 35 million light years and has a radius of 95,000 light years. The galaxy is rich in H II regions, indicating the occurance of star formation at a relatively high rate compared to some galaxies. Two supernovae were seen in this galaxy during the 21st century, SN2002ap and SN2003gd. M74 is receding from the Milky Way at 793 km/sec.
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Posted by ungraspiness
Sun, 25 Dec 2005 21:30:00 GMT
Seasons greetz.
Here is my first attempt at an OS X screensaver. It’s called ‘star’.

Requires OS X 10.4 or higher.
Copy the .qtz file to your user folder under ’/Library/Screen Savers/’.
This folder may need to be created if it does not exist.
Enjoy the twinkle :-)
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Posted by ungraspiness
Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:40:00 GMT
“Every thing at first seems ridiculous,
is then attacked and finally is accepted as a matter of course”
Artur Schopenhauer (22.2.1788 – 21.9.1860), German philosopher
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Posted by ungraspiness
Sat, 17 Dec 2005 02:08:00 GMT
Ruby is a programming language from Japan (available at ruby-lang.org) which is revolutionizing the web. The beauty of Ruby is found in its balance between simplicity and power.

Try Ruby !
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Posted by ungraspiness
Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:21:00 GMT
It’s as if I have never been here and been here all along…

Posted in Life, Philosophy | Tags Seattle | no comments
Posted by ungraspiness
Fri, 09 Dec 2005 15:40:00 GMT
I’m here for the weekend !

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Posted by ungraspiness
Sun, 04 Dec 2005 20:57:00 GMT
A very personal piece of DNA art…

A USB microscope :-)

Posted in Life | Tags art, christmas, dna, kissedmas, micro, xmas | no comments