Kryptograff

Paul Conant is a journalist with a keen interest in mathematics and science.

Monday, June 14, 2010

Freaky facts about 9 and 11

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It's easy to come up with strange coincidences regarding the numbers 9 and 11.  See, for example, http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com...
Monday, March 15, 2010

Blinded by the algorithm

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This post is a bit lame, as I have not yet been able to locate a copy of Richard Dawkins' "Blind Watchmaker." I've been ...
Friday, October 16, 2009

A fun zero

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There is an infinite family of infinite series that represent any complex number z. For details, go to http://www.angelfire.com/az3/nfold/1...
Friday, August 7, 2009

Crash course in entropy

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One way to think of entropy gain in a building collapse is thermodynamically, whereby the maximum Boltzmann entropy is reached when one cann...
Thursday, August 6, 2009

Colliderscope

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Gail Collins mixes some sci-fi with politics in her New York Times column today. Even though jokingly, she makes sure to refute my suspicio...
Monday, August 3, 2009

Paint it black

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So suppose Hawking is right that the Large Hadron Collider will have a one in a hundred chance of producing mini-black holes? His theory, bu...
Saturday, July 25, 2009

Weather warfare?

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Several days ago the History Channel aired a That's Impossible segment about weather warfare. The show discussed the possibility that e...
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