If you took early undergrad-level physics, you probably remember that many of these problems included necessary simplifications, including massless, frictionless pulleys and massless ropes that didn’t stretch. I now present to you a real-world version of one of those simplifications: The spherical cat!
For more, see the Wikipedia entry for Spherical Cow, which includes this animation demonstrating that topologically speaking, a cow is a sphere:
I saw this a couple of weeks ago in Austin at Uncommon Objects, a delightfully…
This stuff makes for amazing fried rice or musubi (a.k.a. “Spam sushi”).
Anitra and I were dropping off a package at the UPS Store on Kennedy when…
It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are the memes, pictures, and cartoons…
I wouldn’t say today’s going perfectly, but it is going nicely. I hope it’s the same for…
Number 5 all the way, baby! It’s the only choice.