I love this little critter.
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Monthly Archives: February 2011
Ed Yong explores an interesting new paper showing how what we teach, and how we teach it, affects a student’s drive to discover.
This is the first sketch of the DNA double helix, drawn by Francis Crick. Read the article here
Reblogged from geneticist.
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One finger or two? Game theory of Morra.
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The formula 1+2+3+…+n = k2 holds for only certain values of n and k.
The first solution n=1 k=1 is trivial.
The next solution is n=8 k=6. The following pictures show polyominoes of length 1-8 tiled inside a 6 x 6 square, one with L polyominoes, and the other with W polyominoes:
For more information on the fascinating world of polyominoes, see:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Polyomino.html
And don’t even get me started on the r-pentomino from Conway’s Game of Life.
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