I ran across this awesome search tool for airline prices. You can look up historical data for up to two years, to see what's a good price.
You just need to play with it a bit to see what all it can do. To get the old stuff, click on the graph once you plug in the two cities you're interested in.
http://www.farecompare.com/
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Friday, January 05, 2007
Gravity. It's a bitch.
Spaceship Earth collapsed. Thoughts?
My favorite comment:
My favorite comment:
"gravity" It's a basic characteristic of the space ship named earth."How can stone collapse by itself?" [Finnish-born sculptor who goes by one name] Eino asked.
Posted by: Wickedpinto at January 4, 2007 20:08
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2007/01/spaceship_earth_sculpture_collapses/How.... odd.
"Imagine having six times the sensitivity of your entire hand concentrated in a single fingertip."
Read more here.
Read more here.
I'm very excited about this one...
Drillers Tap into Foundation of Earth's Crust
In April 2006, geologists reported that they had successfully drilled into the bottom layer of the ocean's crust for the first time—and so have come a step closer to understanding how the foundation of the world takes shape.
New crust forms at midocean ridges where the sea floor spreads apart. Lava leaking from the ridges creates the crust's upper layer; beneath that lies a second layer, composed of the fossilized channels that once piped molten rock to the ridges. The formation of the lowermost crust, made up of a dark, magnesium-rich rock called gabbro, is still largely a mystery, one that holds the key to the workings of the magma source that feeds the whole process.
Douglas Wilson, a geophysicist at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and his colleagues traveled 500 miles west of Costa Rica to an area of ocean floor that formed 15 million years ago. There they found just the right piece of crust—not too hot, not too thick, and not too crumbly—to drill down to the gabbro. In 2006 they released their findings: After drilling through nearly a mile of sediment and crust, they finally hit the gabbro layer for the first time. Wilson hopes to drill deeper into this third layer by 2009. Then he will truly plumb Earth's deep secrets.
Anne Sasso
The scientific research drilling ship Joides Resolution is exploring the hidden structure beneath the ocean's floor . |
http://www.discover.com/issues/jan-07/features/earth-science/?page=3#90
Here's another one...
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Take a magnum of wine and dump it in the ocean, wait until it has mixed completely with the waters around the world, then refill the bottle. What is the chance that the bottle now contains one of the original wine molecules? Answer: The odds are 100 percent. This surprising answer is the result of a simple consequence of statistics. The odds of randomly picking a wine molecule from the ocean is tiny—about 10 -21—because the volume of the bottle is so small relative to the volume of the ocean. But the bottle holds 1025 molecules, which means you get 1025 "tries" to nab one molecule of wine. After that many attempts, the highly improbable becomes destiny. By the same logic, every breath you take contains air molecules you have breathed before—guaranteed.
Not sure I quite buy his logic here...
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Let's say a mathematician and father of two tells you one of his children is a boy, then asks what the odds are that the other child is also a boy. It may seem obvious that the odds are 1 in 2, since the chances of any given child being born male are the same as a coin toss. But the correct answer is 1 in 3. Why? The reason is that the father is effectively asking what the odds are of both children being male, and we already know that (at least) one of them is. This actually creates three possible scenarios: two boys, a younger boy and an older girl, or a younger girl and an older boy. Both children are male in only one of these three scenarios, so the odds are 1 in 3. If the father had instead told you that, say, the older child was a boy, then the odds would indeed be 1 in 2 because in this case there are just two possibilities: The children are either both boys or a younger girl and an older boy—and two boys are just as likely as one child of each sex.
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