danithew | August 22, 2006
The trap-jaw ant snaps its jaws together at a speed anywhere from 78 to 145 miles per hour. The more you read about what scientists have discovered about this (the force and acceleration involved, the purposes for which this ability is used, etc.) the more interesting it gets.
danithew | August 22, 2006
Off the top of your head, can you come up with the names of ten animals that are mentioned in the Book of Mormon? There are a lot more than that (soon to be revealed, with links). This is just an exercise to see what you might come up with from memory.
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danithew | August 22, 2006
John C. Dvorak writes here about some of the ramifications of Google’s municipal wifi project in Mountain View, California. Some really dreamy ideas for all those people who don’t like cable and phone companies. Hat-tip to Digg.com.
danithew | August 22, 2006
I’m more than just a little intrigued by Dr. Grisha Perelman. He is some kind of mathematical genius and has been declared a winner of the Fields Medal, which to mathematics is the equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Yet he’s turned it down as well as a couple of million dollars in awards [...]
danithew | August 22, 2006
In case you didn’t notice, this past weekend the Yankees completed their first 5-game sweep of the Boston Red Sox in 63 years. One article points out that “the Red Sox hadn’t been swept in a five-game series since the Cleveland Indians did it in 1954.”
At Sportsline.com, Scott Miller has written a very entertaining [...]
