Apparently, the sky is blue because blue light is scattered more than the rest of the visible spectrum, due to the frequency dependence of the index of refraction.

And that is the answer to that proverbial question, courtesy of MIT education.

Tentative plans for winter break:

Boston -> New York -> San Diego -> San Francisco -> San Diego -> Hawaii -> San Diego -> Boston

:-)))

I have figured out how to make your days last 48 hours -- sleep every other night!

Muahahahaha

Some notable excerpts from my engineering reading ( Read more... )

And so it has begun.

Today, we found out that because only 30% of MIT graduate students are females (and I quote), "the odds [for females] are good, but the goods are odd..."

:-)

You Are Big Black Boots!
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The story goes like this. A few months ago (I believe it happened in March), our dishwasher broke. Ever since then, we have been threatening to buy a new one, but for some reason, we never got around to it. Finally, two weekends ago, I rebelled against washing any more dishes by hand than absolutely necessary, and so we went to Best Buy (after ( Read more... )

Did you know that the new politically correct term for abortion is REDUCTION??? How low has this society sunk that the word "abortion" is considered to be a no-no? What exactly is wrong with it?

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Here are my results from last February: http://strelka29.livejournal.com/16418.html

And here is now (Apparently, instead of avoiding the false messiah, now I should consider him.):


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