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Friday Random Ten, 11/06
2009-11-07 03:58:50
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1. Porcupine Tree, "Kneel and Disconnect": New Porcupine Tree! It's always great to get new stuff from these guys. It's good, but it's not up to the quality of their last two albums. (But given that their last ...
Orbits, Periodic Orbits, and Dense Orbits - Oh My!
2009-11-06 01:16:18
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Another one of the fundamental properties of a chaotic system is dense periodic orbits. It's a bit of an odd one: a chaotic system doesn't have to have periodic orbits at all. But if it does, then they have to ...
Free Energy From Air? Sorry, no.
2009-11-03 03:22:49
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After the fiasco that was my flame against the downwind faster than the wind vehicle, you might think that I'd be afraid of touching on more air-powered perpetual motion. You'd be wrong :-). I'm not afraid to m...
The Hallmarks of Crackpottery, Part 1: Two Comments
2009-10-28 16:25:32
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Another chaos theory post is in progress. But while I was working on it, a couple of comments arrived on some old posts. In general, I'd reply on those posts if I thought it was worth it. But the two comments a...
Chaos and Initial Conditions
2009-10-27 03:07:15
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One thing that I wanted to do when writing about Chaos is take a bit of time to really home in on each of the basic properties of chaos, and take a more detailed look at what they mean.
To refresh your memory,...
Back to Chaos: Bifurcation and Predictable Unpredictability
2009-10-20 15:20:07
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So I'm trying to ease back into the chaos theory posts. I thought that one good way of doing that was to take a look at one of the class chaos examples, which demonstrates just how simple a chaotic system can b...
Sorry, Denise - but God didn't make numbers
2009-10-19 20:54:52
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I was planning on ignoring this one, but tons of readers have been writing to me about the latest inanity spouting from the keyboard of Discovery Institute's flunky, Denise O'Leary.
Here's what she had to say...
Saturday Recipe: Chicken Mole Enchiladas
2009-10-17 18:37:45
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I forgot to take a picture of this dish - so Physioprof, shut up :-)
I don't even pretend that this is an authentic mexican mole. It's something that I whipped together because I felt like a mole, and I worked...
Humans not yet Perfect? There must be a god involved!
2009-10-15 21:14:16
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First, a quick status note: the blog has been really slow lately because I fell behind schedule on my book, and I've been putting all of my free time into catching up. I'm finally pretty much caught up, so I sh...
Saturday Recipe: Home-Made Roasted Tomato Salsa
2009-10-10 17:10:59
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Lately, friday's have just been too busy for me to get around to posting a recipe. So I decided to switch my recipe posts to saturday. I'll try to be reliable about posting a recipe every saturday.
I tried mak...
