Science & Code

• Felix February 10, 2010

  Random links

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  In an attempt to counteract the short-termed-ness of my surfing experience I have started collecting sites or articles I find interesting. Reading through it just recently, I got the idea of sharing those links; int this way I can also force myself to re-read them again.

  • Hyperreal numbers are a very strange and mind-blowing way of extending our number space. Probably not useful for anyone outside of mathematics but nonetheless entertaining.
  • The culprit for face cancer epidemic in Tasmanian Devils is probably a genetic bottleneck which crippled the ability of the Tasmanian devils’ immune system to distinguish between its own and alien cells; thus enabling cancer cells to jump hosts.
  • The cavity of our atmosphere hums with extreme low-frequency standing electromagnetic waves. Predicted by Winfried Otto Schumann, the phenomena is termed Schumann resonances. Finally the waveguide 101 I had to learn for my minor comes in handy!
  • At last, a great talk about using symmetry group detection for a wide range of computer graphics related topics.

  On a side note: I am writing on the vector geometry basics part two, stay tuned.