Today, for some reason, the topic of magnets has come up several times. I decided to take it as a sign (from the magnet aliens, perhaps) and write a bit about them. Magnets are, indeed, magical. The lodestone has been known for millennia, though how they actually work has only been able to be explained […]
Life of π
Seems that three months have passed since I last wrote anything about anything here. Turns out that actually participating in science is a time consuming endeavor. Actually, it’s been a little over 3 months…3.19 months, actually…which is pretty close to… Today is also Pi Day in the United states, as well as Albert Einstein’s b-day, […]
Ice is Nice!!!
Today, I spent a while in my front yard shoveling the foot or so (let’s use 3 decimeters…that sounds much cooler) snow out of my driveway. As I was LOLing at my neighbors who were all stuck in snow drifts because it is apparently against the law to plow my street, I started to think […]