the Milky Way is home to at least 100 billion planets. -- Discovery News

But did they count Pluto?

I’ve always thought that one of the the great things about physics is that you can add more digits to any number and see what happens and nobody can stop you.

-- XKCD

God did not make the integers. He made continuous numbers, and the rest is the work of the Schrodinger equation.

-- David Tong, in an essay in Scientific American on whether the universe is discrete or analog.

InappropriateXX Julie Lang
Occu-Pi Wall Street! I Am The 3.14159 Percent

Remember when Sarah Palin carefully calculated that the President and his entourage were costing the American taxpayer 8 bazillion dollars a minute on their trip to India? Of course you do.

Today, Palin has done another carefully crafted calculation, claiming curiously that the Libyan whateveryouwanttocallit is costing us $600,000,000 per day ( ( Read more... )

The Environmental Protection Agency set the value of a life at $9.1 million last year in proposing tighter restrictions on air pollution. The agency used numbers as low as $6.8 million during the George W. Bush administration. The Food and Drug Administration declared that life was worth $7.9 million last year, up from $5 million in 2008, in ( Read more... )

2011 is also the sum of 11 CONSECUTIVE prime numbers: 2011=157+163+167+173+179+181+191+193+197+199+211

4159 is the first four-digit prime to occur in the decimal expansion of pi.

3 is obviously the first 1-digit prime.
and 31 is the first 2-digit prime.

Other than that, I remain clueless.

According to the latest Gallup poll Congressional approval writeup

The current drop in overall job approval to 21% particularly reflects a substantial drop in approval among Democrats, whose 36% rating this month is 18 points lower than last month's 54%, and the lowest since January of this year.

Republicans' already-low ratings of Congress have ( Read more... )

"...Obama promises to create 4 million jobs, with over 90% in the private sector. Does this mean he plans to add almost a million expensive new bureaucrats to already bloated government payrolls?"

-- SF Chronicle letter to the editor, by Cary Fullbright(and yes, you can't make this stuff up. That is the name provided ( Read more... )