In which my pugs teach me about mindfulness
Sebastien Pug with his duck careen across the room, plopping down on the oversized circular dog bed at the far end. “He’s out of control!”, Sonya would say. Sebastien is 4 years old and...
Author: David
The Monstir Plate – DIY Magnetic Stir Plate
I use a stir plate for growing yeast cultures for my beer brewing. Most of my recipes require only a 1.5L batch; however, there are some recipes that call for a larger quantity of...
The 2014 Ebola Outbreak – Playing with the numbers
My flight was delayed for and hour and a half getting out of Chicago tonight so I’ve started playing around with numbers, something I am wont to do when I have free time. This...
Kite Flying Sundays Afternoons
Kite Flying Sundays Afternoons The cluttered community bulletin board; Every café and coffee shop with any self respect has one. Push-pin strung business cards abound covering the range of services from Astral Projections to...
The Double-Helix Wort Chiller
I haven’t brewed in quite a while and part of the reason is that over the winter I lost my wort chiller. It wasn’t misplaced but rather I failed to sufficiently blow out all...
I’ve been racing
I ended up signing up for the Vueltas de Mountainair which was held yesterday. I teamed up with 3 other guys from Bike ‘N’ Sport, all fairly new riders. Tom Egelhoff, Oscar Nova, and...
That instant in time was really 15 seconds in the making
It may turn out that the instant you are now experiencing – really, any instant you experience – is an amalgamation of the previous 15 seconds of consciousness. This is the conclusion of a...
2013 Cycling Numbers
Here is a summary of my first year of taking cycling seriously. I did not start off the year with the intent of becoming a cyclist, I only had a notion to live healthier....
We’ve been flipping coins wrong
Actually, the title is a bit misleading. We have been using our coin flips incorrectly. A paper entitled, Dynamical Bias In The Coin Toss [PDF] came out in 2009 by a group from Stanford...
A flash of light, perhaps a puff of smoke… but teleportation shall remain nothing but a dream
Every year the University of Leicester publishes a Journal of Physics Special Topics in which fourth year physics students are encouraged to publish papers on physics and tangential subjects of interest to them. It’s...
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