Gelada

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Do you remember the old mathematics room at Foyles bookshop in London?(maxwelldemon.com)
1 points by Gelada 15y ago|0 comments
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Knot Zoo(blog.makezine.com)
2 points by Gelada 15y ago|0 comments
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The pitfalls of jargon and the damage it does to mathematics(scienceblogs.com)
60 points by Gelada 15y ago|44 comments
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The growing importance of YouTube in Science communication and popularization(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by Gelada 15y ago|0 comments
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by Gelada 16y ago
The benefit of language experts and pedants has been to slow the rate of change in language. As a result we can read Shakespeare and other historical work in the original. It could be argued that this is itself an elitest point, especially
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by Gelada 16y ago
As a BrE speaker, I do use "ise", but "ize" is not unknown, especially in science (I believe that the British published journal Nature has it as their house style). Recently I think it has been declining as it has been identified as "the am
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by Gelada 16y ago
It might be unique to the OED, but they do have historical evidence to back up their case.
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Turn your Slinky into a Klein Bottle(checkmyworking.com)
2 points by Gelada 16y ago|0 comments
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by Gelada 16y ago
The central difference is whether the process is by addition or subtraction. 3d printers, like the reprap, add material (for example melted plastic) to make an object. A router on the other hand removes material from an object until it is t
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by Gelada 16y ago
Although its true that a 3-Axis can do a lot more than people expect with some creative thought, there is a reason 5 (and higher) axis machines exist. For some tasks they can be essential.
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Open Source 5-Axis CNC mill and plasma cutter(kickstarter.com)
34 points by Gelada 16y ago|10 comments
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John Conway reminiscing about Martin Gardner(mathfactor.uark.edu)
1 points by Gelada 16y ago|0 comments
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by Gelada 16y ago
I would second that, Vi Hart's work is wonderful. Though her father's work is also awesome: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/12/introducing_math_mo...
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Mathematician, Artist, Maker, I find myself looking for a job...(maxwelldemon.com)
94 points by Gelada 16y ago|36 comments
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by Gelada 16y ago
Scratch from MIT is designed to help with this: http://scratch.mit.edu/ For more formal programming Processing is a great learning enviroment: http://processing.org/ In both I would say the best method is to find challenges your son wan
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How to offer $1,000,000 and not loose a penny using game thoery(maxwelldemon.com)
2 points by Gelada 16y ago|0 comments