You'll be forgiven if you didn't know Seki Takakazu's work on matrices came out years before Gottfried Leibniz; Japan wanted it that way. But out-Bernoulli'ing Bernoulli? He needs to get some respect for that and I am here to help.
Unless you are a true baseball fan, you have probably never heard of Bob Feller. Maybe you have heard of Nolan Ryan. They were classic power pitchers. They threw hard and they threw for strikes.
Even if you are a baseball fan, unless you live and breathe the Detroit Tigers, you have probably never heard of Joel Zumaya.
Right. Who? While playing in the American League Championship in 2006, he threw a fastball clocked at 104.8 MPH, the fastest in history. How can a guy who threw that fast not be on the cover of every Wheaties box in the civilized world? Because the following year he was 1-4 with a 4.28 ERA; hardly the stuff of legends.
I came across a blog today,
written by a female scientist (apparently - it's an anonymous blog and that's okay,
if Obama's teleprompter can have a blog I suppose anyone sentient can also, but anonymity speaks of a certain paranoia) and she wondered if men perceived science setbacks differently than women. So I began to wonder too.
I'm no expert on shaving products or Australians(1) but this new Wilkinson Sword Quattro for Women Bikini thingie, with a razor on one end and a waterproof bikini trimmer on the other, is not supposed to be used on cats. I am sure of it. Yet, right there at the end of this video, a pussy is clearly shaved.
I am all for science breaking the laws of nature and stuff but shaving animals for sport is just wrong.
(1) The Land Down Under.
On March 30th, Josh Witten
told us about a new site, The
Jenny McCarthy Body Count. He's apparently not a fan of Jenny, no matter what she looks like. I am not sure I understand that kind of thinking but whatever...
On April 2nd, uber-blogger of Discover
Phil Plait/Bad Astronomer tackled the same issue.
Okay, I am going to do something that will cost me my Republican voter card - I am going to recommend we reopen a government agency, the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA).
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