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In the spirit of today's post about James Ussher and the date of creation, here's an all-too-true pie chart that made me laugh; more music charts And the worst part? While Whitney was the first to patent his particular kind of "modern" cotton gin, cotton gins had been invented previously in India…
I've been writing quite a bit this week about my search for a cross platform spread sheet program that would support pivot tables and make pie graphs correctly. This all started because of a bug that my students encountered in Microsoft Excel, on Windows. I'm not personally motivated to look for…
"Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree." -Terry Pratchett With a high unemployment rate and many people having stopped looking for work, it's pretty hard to live in the United States and not be aware of the struggles many people are facing. Here's a song by Loudon…
Well, I am back from the Science Blogging Conference, exhilarated and exhausted! After months of preparation, and last few days of frantic last-minute work, the Big Day has come and I could finally relax and enjoy myself. And enjoy it I did! I hope the others did as well. First order of duty:…

Better than that nasty ol' song you posted the other day. How did that go, again? rb