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Dave Bacon is a theoretical ski bum who is also a pseudo professor. His research is on quantum computing, his scientific passions extend to everything in physics, mathematics, computer science and beyond, and his personal pleasures include making wine, playing poker, skiing, camping, and daydreaming (although not all of those at the same time.)
Nothing he says on this blog should be construed as having anything to do with his employer or his dog.
Category: Self: Meet Center. Center: Meet Self.
One of the most amusing things about writing a blog is that people you've never met form an impression about you from your blabberings, and then, often, when they actually meet you they are astounded that you aren't "an old...
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Category: Art
The telectroscope:Hardly anyone knows that a secret tunnel runs deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. In May 2008, more than a century after it was begun, the tunnel will finally be completed. Immediately afterwards, an extraordinary optical device called a Telectroscope...
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Category: Art
Happy Leap Friday! For your enjoyment, some ferromagnetic fluids jiving to a piano piece:...
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Category: Mathematics Basterdizations
From a New York Times article describing the Nature Theater of Oklahoma's production of "No Dice:" "Poetics," for example, was choreographed using dice. Each face on the die represented one of six possible gestures, and each appendage -- two arms,...
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