This makes my brain explode (see this for background). It made up a fair chunk of a talk I went to today on transfinite ordinals.

See also.

And in case it wasn't obvious from the words 'transfinite' and 'ordinals' and the Mathworld links, this isn't for the mathematically disinclined.

It's a joke.
It's a joke.
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It's a joke.

It's a joke.

It's a joke.
It's a joke.
It's a joke.
It's a joke.
It's a joke.

If I stop believing that it's a joke something bad will happen.

I set a new personal best last night, by getting ID'd buying beer. That means at least someone thinks I look 9 years younger than I am. Lets see if I can get to 10 years later this year....

Grayling gets it. My earlier entry was partly motivated by stuff on CiF, but not by any means entirely,

Some things have been getting my goat lately. Several times in the last week I've come across people pointing out that Lemaître was a Catholic priest (a Jesuit to be precise) who played a major role in the formation of cosmology as we know it - he proposed the Big Bang initially in fact ( Read more... )

via Pharyngula

The misnamed 'Truth in Science' group's DVD has been leaked and is now available for download using bittorrent.

Take care when viewing. It's one thing you could put on your TV that very well could rot your brain.

This story is about a woman, now deceased, who was convicted during WW2 of being a witch. There's now a campaign to pardon her ( Read more... )

It's so tiny!

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As might be expected, this annoys me.

'But Dr George Lewith, who has studied the use of complementary medicine, said most patients find it "helpful".

He said professor Waxman's view was interesting but it was a personal one.'

Funny, I think Waxman's point of view is the least personal one. He's wanting things to be tested.