“Rembrandt’s etching of a beggar with a wooden leg is notable because the two lower limbs of the presumed beggar are present and not deformed.” – note authors J. ten Kate (MD), F. G. I. Jennekens (MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Clinical Neurology) and J. M. E. Vos-Niël (MD, MAPhil, Retired Lecturer in Rehabilitation Medicine) in […]
A machine for a Monday morning
This machine symbolizes Monday mornings. This machine also symbolizes almost anything else. This machine fails to symbolize almost nothing. Claude Shannon, who figured out some things about information, designed the machine, years ago.
Web Cleaner Mote Knife Gauge / Neps & Trash
It’s been a while since we featured a study about neps and trash. Here’s one: “Effect of Web Cleaner Mote Knife Gauge on Neps and Trash“, Yu Xuezhi Sun Pengzi. Cotton Textile Technology, February 2008. The authors, at Liaoning Liaodong University, China, explain: “To study the effect of web cleaner mote knife gauge on removing […]
About you and about notes on a disturbing error
If you are a person of a certain sensibility you will enjoy reading Professor Richard Montgomery‘s “Notes on a disturbing error found in the book Sub-Riemannian Geometry — general theory and examples by Calin and Chang. And if you aren’t, you won’t. Montgomery is enamored also of thinking about the Dzhanibekova effect (which some people prefer to call “the […]