We have studied magnetized billiards with Wedge and Pac-Man like geometries where rotational invariance is broken. We have considered different rational an [sic?] irrational angles for the billiards. So says the abstract for a talk given March 21, 2000 by M. A. Gongora (of Northeastern University and the University of Mexico), J.V. Jose and S. […]
Month: June 2007
Measured discovery about meetings
Of 1,037 full- or part-time workers polled, 27 percent ranked disorganized, rambling meetings as their top frustration, followed by 17 percent who said they were annoyed by peers who interrupt and try to dominate meetings. So says a May 2007 report by Inc. magazine. This great, measured discovery was made by a research firm called […]
Hazarding about Freud’s posing
Assuming that Jung had primary responsibility for the posing of the photograph, let me speculate regarding Freud‘s response to this situation. Freud was generally uneasy about being photographed. For example, in his response to Jung’s request for his picture in 1907 (McGuire, p. 88) he wrote, “In the last fifteen years I have never willingly […]
Linnaeus and the lost secrets of Lapland
Carl Linnaeus paid attention to some surprising things. Linnaeus was the Swedish scientist who taught the world how to classify living things, and gave us the double-barrelled way of naming them in Latin. This year is the 300th anniversary of his birth. The science community celebrates most of his work, but tends to overlook some […]