Monday, October 31, 2005

An interview with Noam Chomsky in The Guardian.

Sunday, October 30, 2005

An article by George Dyson in The Edge about the developtment of computers, from von Neumann's early design to Google, Inc.

Friday, October 28, 2005

Down-to-earth maths: an article proving that a wobbly tables can be fixed just by rotating it (modulo some assumptions).
An insightful article about whether we should consider computer games as works of culture.

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

A set of articles and interviews in Forbes magazine about communications and language.

Saturday, October 15, 2005

Today I read about Philo Farnsworth, teenage american inventor of the TV. It reminded me that the inventor in Futurama is also named Farnsworth, probably not a coincidence...
I like Futurama, it has very smart references and in-jokes for scientists. Check out this webpage and links inside for some of that. Dave Bacon also points out to a reference to a near-failure of Fermat's theorem in a Simpson's episode.

Monday, October 10, 2005

The 2005 Ig Nobel prizes are out!