Thursday, March 25, 2010

The love is an illusion – Sheldonismos

When a female is a witness of a physical exhibition of domain, she produces the hormone oxitocina. If the two interrelate this it will create the biochemical reaction in the brain that the people ingenuously interpret like “falling in love”.

Sheldon Cooper Sheldon Sheldon
The Big Bang Theory
Cap 9 – 2nd period

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Chess: Not so rapid!

Problem of Chess #3

Me elegró very much that have caught fire with this section and have taken part it activates and massively (?) in the previous problem.

In this opportunity we raise a bit the pole and happen at an average difficulty level.

I update the podium

  • Leonel: 1 Point
  • Juan L: 1 Point

Remember that there are no awards, beyond the satisfaction on having solved the problems =)

Make difficult: I come up Problem Chess: Not so rapid! Problem Chess: Not so rapid! Half notes give mate in an action.

Clarification: As I always say to them, if someone knows the problem in advance, or if it discovers the answer, he can suggest it or give some track without giving the explicit answer, to allow to the rest to keep on playing. In this case, the answer "suggested" also will cost a point =)

I listen to them …

Solution:

The solution is in the comments. I do not spend it here so that it is not tantalizing. The interested parties can find it reading easily further down

As for the points …

  • 1 point to Leonel for solving the principal thing (to discover the "trampita")
  • 1 point to Kamarada Grone for the originality of his answer.
  • 1 point to Hurly-burly for an original answer gives all the solutions +.

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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Why are the days shorter?

Axis of the Earth after earthquake of ChileAxis of the Earth after earthquake of Chile was read in many means, that after the earthquake of Chile, the axis of rotation of the ground had moved (8 centimeters) and the days had been shy.

Really, this happened: the days after the earthquake of Chile are shorter. To be precise, there are 1.26 shorter microseconds (one microsecond is one millionth part of the second one).
So if you were one of those that one felt sickly, it is because the ground turns more rapid

Now well …

Why are the days shorter?

The short explanation would be the following one:

Them tectonic badges moved during the earthquake, this did that badges make themselves comfortable better and occupy less place: the Earth after the earthquake is more uniform and compact.
This did that the moment of inertia of the Earth diminishes and consequently the rotation speed increases: the days are shorter

So that it is understood better, a well-known example: If one day they saw someone who skates, they will see that when it turns and extends his arms, the moment of inertia increases and the draft speed diminishes. On the contrary, when it shrinks his arms and becomes “more uniform”, the moment of inertia diminishes and the draft speed increases.

The same happened to the Earth.

It was read in many means, which after the earthquake of Chile, the axis of rotation of the ground

it had displaced (8 centimeters) and the days had been shy.

Really, this happened: the days after the earthquake of Chile are shorter. To be

precise, are 1.26 shorter microseconds (one microsecond is one millionth part of

second).
So if you were one of those that one felt sickly, it is because the ground turns more rapid

Now well …

Why are the days shorter?

The short explanation would be the following one:

Them tectonic badges moved during the earthquake, this did that badges make themselves comfortable better and

occupy less place: the Earth after the earthquake is more uniform and compact.
This did that the angular moment of the Earth diminishes and consequently the speed of

rotation increases: the days are shorter

So that it is understood better, the angular moment depends on the form of the object that it is rotating.

If one day they saw someone who skates, they will see that when it turns and extends his arms,

draft speed diminishes. On the contrary, when it shrinks his arms and is done “more

uniform”, the angular moment diminishes and the draft speed increases.

The same happened to the Earth.

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Friday, March 19, 2010

Free Popular science!

Free Popular science!Free Popular science!

The conocidísima magazine Popular Science associated Google to offer free the whole file of the same one: 137 years of free magazines to explore.

They can submerge in the file that of course will be full of perlitas:

File of Popular Science

That enjoy it!

The conocidísima magazine Popular Science associated Google to offer free everything

file of the same one: 137 years of free magazines to explore.

They can submerge in the file that of course will be full of perlitas.

File of Popular Science
http://www.popsci.com/archives

That enjoy it!

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Science popularization – Ludwig Wittgenstein

(…) to explain a scientific question to them he would need the whole course and not a conference of one hour. Another alternative would have been to give them what calls itself a conference a science popularization conference, that is to say, faced to make them believe that they understand a thing that in fact they do not understand and to reward what I believe that it is one of the lowest desires of the modern people, namely, the superficial curiosity on the last discoveries of the science.

Wittgenstein Science popularization Ludwig WittgensteinWittgenstein - Ludwig Wittgenstein,
It confers on Ethics,
Cambridge, on January 2, 1930.

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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Chess: Humor and entrance hall of the reputation

I make use of this minipost to mention to them that I created the “Entrance hall of the Reputation” where encoantrarán the ranking of those who plunge points solving the problems =)

And of step I leave them a little of humor ajedrecístico

Chess: humor

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Why are so many geniuses?

So many times I have seen how the people are called a genius; from the same way it goes on with some insects that are called a centipede – not because they have this number of feet, but because most of the people do not count up to fourteen.

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Georg Lichtenberg Georg Lichtenberg
(1742-1799)
scientist and German writer.

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Chess: Slap of drowned

It is a Monday and it is a day of problems … fortunately of chess =)

Since some of them know, they can see the Entrance hall of the Reputation with the list of those that added up (the rest they are going to happen to be part of the list with averages for the descent)

The today problem, it is again slightly conventional (it is not of the dull type in x moves), although it does not contain any "trampita".

Problem #4: Slap of drowned.

Make difficult: I come up

Problem of Chess: Slap of drownedProblem of Chess: Slap of drowned

The half notes driven to despair before the imminent mate of the black women (lady to g2), try a slap of drowned. What is the best thing that the half notes can move? (and why?)

As Luisa Delfino … listened to them

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Sherlock Holmes, Climate change and Dr. House

Sherlock Holmes and the Climate change: Sherlock Holmes - Poster Sherlock Holmes - Poster

It does some time I had the opportunity to see the movie Sherlock Holmes de Guy Ritchie with Robert Downey Jr as Holmes and Jude Law in the Watson role.
The peli seemed very entertaining to me and without being a big connoisseur of the brilliant personage created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, I have the impression of which the movie managed to transmit the delight and friendliness that there wakes up Holmes and his adventures. To such a point that I withdrew from myself from the movies waiting for the second prompt part.

Those who have seen it, will be able to understand better what I count next and for those who should not have done it, they should not be afraid that I will try not to reveal anything excellent.
During the movie facts are happening and there appearing tracks that lead Watson to suggesting to Holmes a metaphysical explanation of the case.
In a passage we can see this dialogue:

Watson: – We have to admit, Holmes, that a supernatural explanation in this case, it is theoretically possible.

Holmes: – Yes, I agree. But it commits an error on having done theories without sufficient information. Inevitably, you begin to deform the facts to conciliate them with the theories, instead of modifying the theories so that they adapt themselves to the facts.

This dialogue, since it could not be otherwise, provoked a smile to me at the same time that he made me think the adapted of the answer of Holmes with regard to the alarmists of the climate change:

Masters of the IPCC commit an error on having done theories without sufficient information. Inevitably, you begin to deform the facts to conciliate them with the theories, instead of modifying the theories so that they adapt themselves to the facts.

Fortunately, Doyle supported Holmes far from the fiction (and of the metaphysics) therefore when the movie ended, Clarke's Third Law came to my memory:

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable of the magic

And on this matter, I have to quote here a brilliant phrase of the proper Holmes:

“If we eliminate the impossible thing, what stays, for improbable that seems, it has to be true.” (The sign of the four)

Addendum 1: 3 Clarke's laws

Arthur C. Clarke postulated three laws in his books. The third one, previously quoted, is the most well-known. Here I leave the two first ones to them:

The Clarke's first Law:

“When an aged and distinguished scientist affirms that something is possible, probably it is in the correct thing. When he affirms that something is impossible, probably it is wrong.”

The Clarke's second Law:

“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible thing is to risk towards the impossible thing.”

Addendum 2: Sherlock Holmes and Gregory House

House vs. HolmesHouse vs. Holmes

Known is for the readership of the blog my taste for another investigator, the acid Dr. Gregory House. The lame personage interpreted instructively by Hugh Laurie is to all lights a big investigator, not of scenes of crimes but of illnesses. The methodology investigativa and deductive they are similar and it is not a coincidence, it seems that the writers of the series House M.D. were inspired by the personage of Conan Doyle, for what the similarities between both do not finish there, let's see:

  • Holmes has only one friendly, John Watson.
    House has only one friendly, James Wilson.
  • Holmes is addicted to the cocaine.
    House is addicted to the vicodina.
  • Holmes only is interested for his clients solve the cases without mattering for him in the most minimal.
    House only is interesting diagnosing the cases and his patients do not matter for him in the most minimal.
  • Holmes lacks conscience and uses almost any method to solve his cases.
    House lacks conscience and breaks rules to diagnose his patients.
  • Holmes likes to touch the violin.
    House likes to touch the piano.
  • Holmes is irritatingly haughty, arrogant, he is always thinking about having the reason and is bad-tempered.
    House also.
  • Holmes lives in the department 221B of the street Baker.
    House lives in the department 221B!
  • Holmes, the personage, was composed by Conan Doyle being based on a doctor.
    House ES doctor
  • Holmes has an archenemy, the teacher James Moriarty.
  • House in a chapter receives a shot and although they do not name the attacker, in the qualifications it appears as Jack Moriarty

Sherlock HouseSherlock House Homenaje? Do I pirate? I do not know … the true thing the fact is that this modern Holmes occurred into Dr. there seems to me the best personage of the modern series.

Comparative route: House MD Guide

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