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Hamilton’s quaternion number system is a non-commutative extension of the complex numbers, consisting of numbers of the form where are real numbers, and are anti-commuting square roots of with , , . While they are …

More than 8 years ago I created bibgetter, a tool that fitted perfectly in my workflow of dealing with bibliographies in LaTeX, which is a combination of citing arXiv preprints, papers with MathSciNet entries, and …

The American mink is not endangered and lives all across North America in wetlands with the exception of the American Southwest, but the subspecies that occurs in the Everglades is considered threatened. Mink are weasels …

As I have mentioned here in the past, each day I read a poem in the morning and a poem in the evening. This was today's morning poem: Autumn EndsLost in vacant wonder at how …

Photograph by James Kocher. Photography Contest, Honorable Mention. Caligo teucer – owl butterfly, Bayer Insectarium, St. Louis Zoo, January, 2023. Mr. Kocher writes, "An example of mimicry coloration. Butterfly has recently emerged from a chrysalis …

The 38th Annual Irish Economic Association Conference is being organized by the Department of Economics at Queen’s University Belfast and will be held at the Hilton Belfast, 4 Lanyon Place, Belfast (BT1 3LP), from Thursday, …

It’s some months since I read Marietje Schaake’s The Tech Coup, as she delivered the ST Lee Poicy Lecture here in Cambridge last November 11th, right after the US presidential election. Just a short time …

Shameless self-promotion by Hatcher! The post The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #210: ‘Friday by Gaslight’ appeared first on Atomic Junk Shop.

The ‘exotic’ yet homely Central Asian restaurant hidden in Queensway Market Although it’s not quite as common as it used to be, there’s a hoary old cliche found on restaurant menus across the land: ‘home …

First new work of the year in support of the ongoing BDS boycott of Coca Cola products, and in recognition also of Coca-Cola's murderous repression of union organisers in South America. In 2017, Coca Cola …

Thanks to Neil for this review. Now I'm officially philosoph-twee!https://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/01/17/helen-mccookerybook-showtunes-from-the-shadows-tiny-global-productions/

Don’t get me started on the fact that if you do login, you’re taken to the store homepage instead of the specific page you were trying to visit in the first place …

The New York County Courthouse, on Chambers Street, in 1870: The building is much better known as the Tweed Courthouse, but I’ll assume for a moment that people reading this don’t know why. The photo …

Note: This article is based on updated research and is intended to replace my old article on Melchizedek, written several years ago. It has also been produced as a documentary at the MythVision YouTube channel. …

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