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By drorzel on February 28, 2009.

Cowbirds in Love

Mad science vs. mad engineering

(tags: science comics silly)
Analysis of the price of a piece of a lego set | Dot Physics

There's nothing you can't do with a least-squares fit.

(tags: blogs math statistics kid-stuff toys dot-physics)

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