Forget Fi
Good Math, Bad Math says phi is more fun. After all, "if you write φ as a continued fraction, it's [1;1,1,1,1...]; and if you write it as a continued square root, it's 1 + sqrt(1+sqrt(1+sqrt(1+sqrt(1...))))."
Wes Phillips
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Watch Malaria At Work
I'm fascinated by how tiny little things affect world history—take the malaria parasite for instance. Forget the Black Death or the Influenza outbreak of 1917, Malaria has had a bigger impact on humanity than any other rampaging pathogen—yet, we still don't completely understand how it works.
Napoleonic Satires
As a fan of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin romances and Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe's Rifles novels, I'm a sucker for this type of collection.
Star Trek Inspirational Posters
Need I say more? And, unlike many parodies, these are ha-ha funny, not simply funny strange.
Nobody Knows You Are a Dog
Hilarious send-up of Internet advice columns: An "expert" advises great photographers on how to improve their iconic images.
The Book on the Peloponnesian War You'll Want to Read
If you're like me, it might seem in retrospect that you spent longer laboring over Thucydides than it took Athens and Sparta to fight the dang thing.
Paying Proofreaders Is a Bargain
One misplaced comma can cost you $2.13 million. Granted, those are Canadian dollars, but that still makes my hourly rates pretty fargin' cheap.
The 21st Century Is Making You Miserable
Precisely because you're not miserable enough in the first place, if I follow this chap's reasoning.
The Madness of George III
A medical mystery solved?
It Seems So Obvious When You Think About It
Given its ubiquity, strength, and lightness, why don't they build bikes out of bamboo?