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December 22nd-28th….(nearly there!)
Penultimate list of daily facts Continue reading
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Tagged biology, cricket, Crimean War, dinosaurs, Florence Nightingale, history, King Canute, medical, nail biting, television
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November 10th – November 16th
Wednesday I learnt how a XOR goat cardboard model works. Thursday Koch described the snowflake curve in 1904. Friday There is a train from Bridgwater to Taunton at 1.07 am on Saturday morning. Saturday I learnt the identity of South … Continue reading
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Tagged bridgwater, entertainment, frankenstein, history, horror, Kate Middleton, logic, mathematics, movies, music, Prince William, roy orbison, royalty, south park, Taunton, television, trains, transport, XOR
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Scenes From The History of Mathematics (Richard Bellman)
In 1953 Richard Bellman invents Dynamic Programming Continue reading
Still learning something new each day (August 9th – 15th)
Monday Asps do not live in Egypt so Cleopatra was more likely killed by an Egyptian cobra. Most exciting news though is that there is a serious paper published claiming it has proof that P!=NP, which if verified will net … Continue reading
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Tagged asp, biology, cleopatra, cobra, egypt, history, Lancashire, mating, pond skaters, sex, snake, Yorkshire. rose
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Cleopatra’s Asp
“Cute asp” they said to their egyptian queen, “Its the cutest asp that we had ever seen”, Cleo made a mistake, Was bit by the snake, And she died and her skin turned all green. ~
Pharaoh’s sisters
Apprantly it may not be an urban myth that the certain Somerset villages are like the ancient rulers of egypt taking sisters as their wives…
sukarno-hatta (cgk)
The main airport for Indonesia is sukarno-hatta named after the first president (sukarno) and vice president (hatta). Wondering if Ted Heath had a vice PM called Row? Supplementary thing I learnt today : merpati pos is Indonesian for carrier pigeon
