Archive for October 6th, 2006
Friday, October 6th, 2006
Ig Noble prize for Mathematics goes to CSIRO scientists
In a media release from the CSIRO today, two of their scientists, Dr Piers Barnes and Ms Nic Svenson have won the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize in Mathematics for “figuring out how many photographs to take of a group of people to be confident of getting at least one where no-one’s blinking”. The maths is […]
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Friday, October 6th, 2006
Friday Diversions - Fighting Pets and Slugs
Posting this video probably makes me a bad person, but this is one very stupid dog and one very fat angry cat. My Miffy is exactly the same, she keeps getting whacked on the nose every time she gets too close to my Burmese cat but harrassing her is still her favourite past time.
If that […]
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Friday, October 6th, 2006
The Face of Sydney - Apparently
Let’s Face It – Sydney’s City of Villages: The City of Sydney council commissioned Karen Donnelly, Raimond de Weerdt and Tony Nott to build composite faces of Sydney based on Bureau of Statistics figures. The Sydney faces are a result of 1400 photographs, layered and morphed using a specialist program. They have used the stats […]
