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Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang

Professor of mathematics at Oral Roberts University
Google now indexing thumbs. Final page of solubility book: Solubilities of inorganic and organic compounds: a compilation of ..., Volume 1 By Atherton Seidell
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it actually looks like a toe - Jean-Claude Bradley
Correct. Tis pink, looks like a form of shoewear with desert like background to me so, might this be "Toe in the Sahara, with shoe" Featuring Sting and @cromercrox :- http://www.last.fm/music... - Graham Steel
or does this prove Megan Fox made this scan http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip... - Jean-Claude Bradley
Is this already be digitized by typing monkeys? - Egon Willighagen
it is automatically generated Egon - just waiting for me to get the preface done.... - Jean-Claude Bradley
Jean-Claude... you mean, you are getting the data rescued already? - Egon Willighagen
Ubiquitous information technology fields - http://futurememes.blogspot.com/2009...
"...once any area becomes an information technology, it starts conforming to the exponential curves of Moore’s Law..." - Andrew Lang
great post - if we can figure out a way to automate the execution of the DoSol sheet it should go exponential - that is our bottleneck right now - Jean-Claude Bradley
Invisibility Uncloaked - http://www.sciencenews.org/view...
Didn't know about this part of the story "But it was another PRL reviewer’s rebuke that opened Leonhardt’s eyes wide. It said he was not alone. The assessment, routinely shared with Leonhardt, indicated that the reviewer had been to two meetings in the previous months “in which John Pendry discussed his group’s efforts on the same issue, calling it a cloaking device or their Hogwarts project in reference to the cloak of invisibility associated with the Harry Potter series.” Pendry and his colleagues, the assessment added, “supposedly have filed a patent related to this work.” Hence, the anonymous reviewer declared, the work was not new and did not merit publication in PRL." - Andrew Lang
Flickr as a paintbrush - http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog...
Cool visualization. - Andrew Lang
let the remixing never end - Jean-Claude Bradley
I don't think he knows what 'not yet' means.
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So Bad It's Worse - http://xkcd.com/653/
so where do you put the recent Star Trek movie? I know you had some problems with the physics :) - Jean-Claude Bradley
Red Matter?! It really disturbed my English prof. colleague when I told him the implications - that everything, TOS, STNG, DS9, all the previous movies, etc now effectively took place in a parallel universe. - Andrew Lang
aren't the previous shows in an alternate (now extinguished) timeline, not a parallel universe? - Richard Akerman from BuddyFeed
You're right Richard. They're not going to 'fix' things like they did in the City on the Edge of Forever, for example, that is what disturbed my colleague - he has invested a lot of time in Star Trek. :) "The first one did what it was required to do, which was bring the family together and reset," Abrams explained in an interview with MTV News. - Andrew Lang
the pace of a planet being consumed by a black hole was amazingly (and dramatically!) gradual - Mike Chelen
yes, but it was overall much better than the Star Wars Holiday Special. I'm glad they didn't broadcast it in the UK or my life may have gone in a different direction. - Andrew Lang
Data visualization in Second Life - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Data visualization in Second Life
is the latest version available through xstreet or only drexel island? - Mike Chelen
'Hiro's molecule rezzer' is stable and is on xstreet. Orac is perpetual beta and is available from Hiro (er... me). - Andrew Lang
Bing Interactive Periodic Table: http://www.bing.com/visuals...
Google acquires ReCaptcha as book-scanning aid - http://news.cnet.com/8301-30...
Gravitational Currents Could Slash Fuel Needed For Space Flight - http://science.slashdot.org/story...
Should contraception qualify for climate funds? - http://news.cnet.com/8301-11...
NASA Can Now Create Objects Using Electron Beams [Manufacturing] - http://gizmodo.com/5370586...
Science Discovers 32 New Planets... And Monty Python's Seen Them All - http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2009...
Searching for Earth-like planets explained by Eric Idle. - Andrew Lang
What a Response to the Wolfram|Alpha iPhone App! - http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2009...
The mobile browser works just fine for most needs. - Andrew Lang
cool - are they still thinking about including some of our solubility data? - Jean-Claude Bradley
£29.99? Seriously? - Simon Cockell
I haven't heard back from them regarding the solubility data. I'll follow up later this week if I don't hear anything. - Andrew Lang
@Simon. I was disappointed that they're going to charge for their API too but it is the business model they're going for right now - can't blame them - I'm sure it has cost them a lot of money to get as far as they are now. - Andrew Lang
@Andrew - It is disappointing. I do get why, but I'm not sure £30 is the price point that's going to maximise their return. Especially given the pretty rigorous environment of the App Store (and the fact a free version of essentially the same tool is sitting behind the icon labelled 'Safari'). Charge £2.99, sell 20x as many copies... (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...) - Simon Cockell
The Open Dinosaur Project - http://webapps.oru.edu/new_php...
I helped some of my students enter some data. - Andrew Lang
what a great project - Jean-Claude Bradley
Mentions my latest ORU blog post. - Andrew Lang
New ring detected around Saturn - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
Iapetus' two-tone appearance has a possible explanation. "... like bugs on a windshield." - Andrew Lang
Stargate Universe - s1 | e1 - Air, Parts 1 and 2 - http://www.hulu.com/watch...
A bit of a cross between the previous stargate series and battlestar galactica. I prefer with a bit more of comedy but it was a nice start. - Pedro Beltrao
so Andy you didn't have a problem with the life support system happening to fail just as they boarded after several hundred thousand years? :) - Jean-Claude Bradley
I would say it's more like Star Trek: Voyager with a Stargate. Didn't do much for me. - Richard Akerman
I think the life-support turned on when the gate connected - at least the lights did. It was a little formulaic though wasn't it. - Andrew Lang
1-octadecylamine on W|A. Looks like they included gravity in the minimization algorithm? http://www.wolframalpha.com/input...
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Unmuzzling Diploma Mills: Dog Earns Online MBA - http://chronicle.com/blogPos...
too funny - Andrew Lang
Quantum mechanics isn't hard to understand, it's just hard to believe in - http://webapps.oru.edu/new_php...
Still not an excuse for students. - Andrew Lang
nice insight - do you offer your students different ways of "understanding" - like the many worlds interpretation? - Jean-Claude Bradley
I do talk briefly about the interpretation of quantum mechanics in science and science fiction, especially when we talk about time travel paradoxes and parallel universes, but don't have the time to really get into the cool details or consequences - too much other cool science stuff to talk about. I do however teach a straight quantum mechanics class. Last semester, I made them do a semester project on the interpretation of quantum mechanics, for which I won a 'writing across the curriculum' award. :) - Andrew Lang
that's great Andy! - Jean-Claude Bradley
STOC: NYSE Stock Exchange Planetary System - http://infosthetics.com/archive...
Distant world 'has rocky surface' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
This is my student. Any librarians (or anyone else) out there have ideas for manuscripts? - Andrew Lang
Ridley Scott And Leonardo DiCaprio Explore A 'Brave New World' - http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2009...
Earth Brooch: Wear Your Favorite Topographic Landscape as Jewelry - http://infosthetics.com/archive...
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