... isn't it annoying when you read some new mathematical technique and you're all like "oh that makes sense" but then look at it five minutes later and you're all like "whoa -- wait, what?"

•  Enter the Matrix - this suddenly makes the prospect of Vector Spaces revision so much more worth it.
•   Mewonders if this is how the end of the human race will come about... beware, my friends, the Uprising!

And who else knew that Newsnight Review had changed to become 'The Review Show'? Oh, right, everyone. I'm an idiot. Well, I'll just rant about ( Read more... )

The Amazonian tribe that can only count up to five.

(links to the actual scientist for fear of April Fool's - http://www.hal.inserm.fr/inserm-00285215/en/)

And this article - the thrill of Science tamed by agendas - makes my inner crusty natural philosopher is priming to ( Read more... )

Ahahaha. 'The Manifold Joys of Complex Mapping'. Oh get you. So funny.

EDIT: Actually, it's not so bad when you stop making mistakes that would make your sixteen year old self hang her head in shame.

I also recently discovered that one of my lecturers was involved in some sort of mild scuffle (I say scuffle, but this is the heady world of Cosmology ( Read more... )