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Happy New Kiloday!

If metric time had been introduced as I suggested, today would be the beginning of kiloday 83. So Happy New

Leaf Cutter Ants Originally uploaded by Micah & Erin I was reading The Economist’s featured article on innovation pessimism yesterday.

I decided to read Poul Anderson’s Tau Zero because I was getting frustrated with the physical implausibility of most science

Ornate ceiling Originally uploaded by subblue Everybody knows fractal images (such as the Mandelbrot ones). They are normally two-dimensional, but

Three years ago, I added a metric clock to this blog, but I later redesigned the whole site and the

Téléphone Originally uploaded by zigazou76 Once Scotland becomes independent, it would be natural to get its own international calling code

Crazy Timezones Originally uploaded by tm-tm The UK government’s recent idea to move the UK from GMT/BST to CET/CEST and

If metric time had been introduced as I suggested, today would be the beginning of kiloday 80. So Happy New

Happy Pi Day (to the 36th digit)! Originally uploaded by Mykl Roventine ? is often given an almost mythical status,

Babbitt Family Tree Originally uploaded by FrodoBabbs While sampling some nice beer in Århus earlier this year with my good