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Two nerd things today. First is a joke that also functions as a nerd test. Why
do geeks think Christmas and Halloween are on the same day? (Hint: Think number
systems). Secondly, this recipe is why
engineers don't write cookbooks. Chocolate chip cookies do sound real good about
now though.
In yet another example of how the internet is changing the
way people can get information, you can now read the US 2002
budget online. It's pretty dry reading, but it's still pretty neat that it's
possible to read the actual document that has been in the news so much recently.
Plus it has some interesting figures in there too, like that we'll spend $455
billion on Social Security next year, and just $21.2 billion on all science
related activities (which includes $13.6 billion for NASA).
And speaking
of space, scientists are having a hard time figuring why two deep
space probes have not traveled as far as they should have. Apparently there
is some "mystery" force that is slowing down the probes more than expected. That
could mean that some of the laws of gravity might have to be modified or
rewritten, once scientists figure out what exactly those new laws are. Such is
the path of scientific progress; just when we think we know everything,
something comes up that nothing we know can explain.
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