The Work of John Milnor
march 2011 by maciej
Layman-targeted speech on Milnor's winning the Abel prize
math
abel
milnor
pdf
march 2011 by maciej
Sailors' scurvy before and after James Lind – a reassessment
february 2010 by maciej
Fantastic survey paper on the state of knowledge before and after Lind, and his exact role. Uses a nice question/answer format.
pdf
baron
scurvy
lind
nutrition
med
hist
february 2010 by maciej
Understanding Scam Victims: Seven Principles for Systems Security
november 2009 by maciej
Entertaining and sobering taxonomy of scams from the people who do the scam reality show
tv
scam
fraud
pdf
security
con
november 2009 by maciej
How Futile are Mindless Assessments of Roundoff in Floating-Point Computation
august 2009 by maciej
Great numerics rant by author of IEEE standard
numerics
computing
rant
pdf
floating-point
august 2009 by maciej
ChocQuibTown
february 2008 by maciej
translated lyrics and info sheet on a great colombian hip hop group
colombia
es
lyrics
pdf
hiphop
february 2008 by maciej
The Thermodynamic Arrow: Puzzles and Pseudo-Puzzles
march 2007 by maciej
Huw Price paper attempting to make a clear formulation of what exactly is weird about the second law of thermodynamics
thermodynamics
huw
price
time
cosmology
entropy
pdf
march 2007 by maciej
Uranium Hexafluoride Tailings - characteristics, transport and storage
january 2007 by maciej
PDF on UF6 storage at a siberian chemical facility in Tomsk
risk
nukes
uranium
chem
pdf
january 2007 by maciej
Military report on filth flies and how to fight them (can't be done)
august 2006 by maciej
"mechanical transmission of disease is facilitated by adult filth flies' habit of feeding on contaminated materials, as well as human food, and by their habit of vomiting and defecating while feeding."
barfingwhileeating
crappingwhileeating
crappingwhilebarfing
flies
insect
mil
pdf
ugh
grocklebar
august 2006 by maciej
Piraha - language without number, raises doubts on "Universal Grammar"
april 2006 by maciej
fascinating paperby slightly sun-baked linguist deep in the Amazon on a language unlike any other
linguistics
anthro
amazon
brazil
culture
cognition
cool
pdf
grocklebar
april 2006 by maciej
gibbs.paradox.pdf (application/pdf Object)
april 2006 by maciej
Discussion of the Gibbs paradox and deciphering of his own notes on the topic
gibbs
statistical
mechanics
thermodynamics
paper
pdf
physics
paradox
april 2006 by maciej
"Tiger Team" report on external tank foam loss in Discovery launch (eg, a TPS report)
october 2005 by maciej
apparently the foam is more sensitive than previously thought to damage in handling
shuttle
space
report
pdf
discovery
foam
nasa
october 2005 by maciej
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