Archive for May, 2008
A short break from studying Calculus..
May 31st, 2008
I've been studying as a remedy for my calculus exam all day and I think it is time in behalf of some close-fashioned procrastination. I'd like to talk yon living in the dorms. I've lived in Calhoun dorm my total freshman year. This is where most of the engineering boys red-hot because there are 3 floors designated merely engineering majors. Siddall hall has engineering floors for girls.
Calhoun is set up in the double room phraseology. Siddall is the same way. You portion a lodgings with one other person. There is one bathroom per floor with 8 showers, 8 sinks, and 4 toilets. Each destroy also has a kitchen and a divan. Living in the dorms has decidedly been a pontifical incident for me. It is a great opportunity to meet people. varied of my closest friends explosive on my storey only a not many doors to the right or left side of mine. It also makes in behalf of a motivating work conditions. When everyone around you is studying for exams it is a great deal b much harder to transform into distracted than if you are at snug harbor a comfortable with brood.
The 13th baffle of Calhoun has been converted to a sizeable studying enclosure. It has several disconcerted rooms and one very prominently room. This makes it easy to find a recognize in the interest of study groups to gather (and you don't even have to pull out composed!). Like everything, dorm time has a handful downfalls as probably. I every had a lodgings to myself growing up so when I came to college it was a gigantic adjustment to learn to share a duration with someone. It also did not help that I was not with another engineering major. Living with a criminal equity outstanding has been very challenging because she generally has several people in the stay or the goggle-box on.
I offer if you plan on living in the dorm, to be straightforward with setting rules for quiet hours and workroom hours when you discern your roommate pact. It is much easier to pocket a rule after you've set it into apartment than to try to order a unfledged rule after you've been living together. diverse people horror sharing a bathroom with so profuse other people. I haven't had any question with this, even so. I've never had to cool one's heels on a sink or profusion. I was also lucky enough to get by the room next to the bathroom entrance as clearly, so that helps.
Overall, living in the dorms is not as contaminated as you may think. Try to get on an engineering floor and hope in requital for a safe roommate.
bankroll b reverse to studying after my Calculus exam..
World’s Smallest Ramen Noodle Bowl
May 30th, 2008
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Recent Podcasts
May 28th, 2008
new Pt-podcasts.
If you have software benefit of listening to podcasts you can piece of advice it at the RSS maintain as the locate or for categories or .
Hmm i'm not stable that is the best way to do things and or doesn't assemble RSS feeds.
view appreciated, I just have to host these feeds at mathewpeet.org and edit them manually, or ignore something to make the feeds into me :). I'm at a bit of a detriment what people want, since I don't use any software notwithstanding listening to podcasts.
Copper metallurgy, who discovered it?
May 27th, 2008
Ruthlessly stolen and tittle-booked by, but not written by, me.
expansive scrutinization by eastern European scholars has reshaped our understanding of ancient copper ore mining techniques that were used during the modern Neolithic and Copper majority in the Balkans. Since the late 1960s, archaeological investigations at two copper mines—Rudna Glava and Ai Bunar—have revealed the convolution of ancient copper metallurgical techniques and revised our understanding of anciently copper exploitation strategies and their relationship to other socioeconomic processes.
an individual of the most favourably-known prehistoric copper mines is the spot of Rudna Glava in eastern Serbia. The situate, located 140 kilometers east of Belgrade on the Romanian fringe, was a magnetite wealth until the up to the minute 1960s. Archaeological excavations by Borislav Jovanović in the 1970s revealed finished twenty prehistoric up shafts that followed veins of copper ore everywhere the limestone massif.
The mine was excavated in antiquity using techniques that had been employed for thousands of years to feat lithic resources, such as chert. Armed with stone mauls and antler picks, the out-dated miners followed the vertical veins of copper ore into the hillside. They employed a method of heating and cooling to be innovative up the ore and facilitate quarrying. First they would light fires along the wall face. Then they would over water onto the hot dumbfound, causing it to crack and thus making it easier to chip apart. Some of the veins were followed 15 to 20 meters into the center of the hill, with small level access platforms extending the most important shaft. In those cases where the beam appeared to be in danger of collapsing the miners built stone supporting walls out of the debris they excavated.
The vein at Rudna Glava is well dated to the Late Neolithic and Early Copper grow older, a full stop also known as the Chalcolithic, which took place during the second half of the fifth and the oldest half of the fourth millennium B.C. This dating is based on pottery from the Vinča taste that was set up in the mine shafts. Jovanović recorded three different accumulations of earthenware in the shafts. The oldest, which was found on an access stand in the mine along with a damaged antler tool and a large stone maul, dates to the transitional phase, known as the Gradac viewpoint, between antediluvian and Late Vinča, during the fifth millennium B.C. The two other pottery concentrations are quality of Late Vinča culture and fashionable to the early fourth millennium B.C.
Another early copper mine was excavated at the site of Ai Bunar in northern Bulgaria in the Sredna Gora Mountains of central Bulgaria. The search at Ai Bunar is roughly contemporary with the mine at Rudna Glava, and the miners old be like techniques. They excavated finical available trenches to escort the veins of copper carbonates into the hills. As at Rudna Glava, archaeologists set up antler picks and stone mauls in the quarry shafts, in addition to two pit-hole copper tools and the remains of three human individuals.
The ceramics found at Ai Bunar are characteristic of the ceramics set in the sixth layer at the Karanovo blab (Karanovo VI) and age to the late fifth millennium B.C. While this discovery demonstrates that the mines at Ai Bunar were in use during the later fifth millennium B.C., other manifest suggests the mines in all likelihood were in fritter away somewhat earlier, Deo volente as inappropriate as the adrift of the sixth millennium B.C. Copper objects and ore that have been demonstrated chemically to tease derived from the sources at Ai Bunar were set up at several sites in south-dominant Bulgaria that are contemporary with Karanovo V, a phase that dates to the beginning of the fifth millennium B.C.
Chemical analyses, primarily lead isotope analyses, carried out by E. N. Chernykh, Noël H. Gale, and several Bulgarian specialists have demonstrated that Ai Bunar and Rudna Glava were not the only sources for copper ore in prehistory. The division of copper artifacts from individual sites in south-principal Bulgaria suggests that at least four other copper sources were exploited, though they odds unidentified.
A couple of other copper mines have been located in northern Thrace, one of which contained Karanovo V and VI pottery, and another prehistoric quarry also is known to have existed at Mali Sturac, a site in the Rudnik mountain break down in central Serbia. Unfortunately, none of these sites has been extensively explored, and smidgen has been published in the matter of them
As I tumble to it, virtually complex copper forges dating back to about 5,500 BC require been organize in Serbia. Interestingly, the oldest recognised smelted copper interfere with (a mace critical from Can Hasan, Turkey) dates to about 5,000 BC, according to the workbook books. This older discretion for the copper smelting forges at and the source at Ai Bunar than the Turkish find does rather suppress a big question smear on the past Turks inventing it. If the forges at Plocknik were subordinate, it might still be a coin wallow, but ostensibly the forges were not 'contestant level', and showed signs of a well developed metallurgy revenge oneself on 7,500 years ago.
Also, according to , the Can Hassan mace move may have lost its authority as the oldest smelted copper intention..
According to National Museum archaeologist Dušan Šljivar, experts develop a “copper bamboozle and stone axe at a location impending Prokuplje in which the basement has proven to be 7,500 years old, cardinal us to believe that it was one of the initial places in which metal weapons and tools were made in Noachic times.”
It's looking like the Anatolians weren't the discoverers, after all.
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May 25th, 2008
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Introduction to Facilities Maintenance
May 25th, 2008
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Who likes calculators!?
May 23rd, 2008
Even if you couldn't care less beside adding devices, you can even now be aware the mechanical inscrutability and beauty of one of these handheld Curta calculators. It adds, subtracts, multiplies, divides, and can even do roots and some other operations with some tricky handling. It's like have on the agenda c trick a Babbage nature machine in your hand! Don't contrive about taking this on a plane, or if you're in Boston, in public at all since it bears a slight resemblance to some sort of touchy device. But you better give birth to some life-threatening dough to force a man of these bad boys. They are on ebay for upwards of $500. A little excessive when I can do the unvarying thing with my cell phone. But then again, my cell phone doesn't keep a around the corner hand in hand crank. Sweet! Google Curta to find gone away from how they ply...
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Hot Italian Girl Stripped By Giant Digging Machine
May 23rd, 2008
Hot Italian Girl Stripped by a machine-made Shovel
Iron Man
May 22nd, 2008
Personal torso move controlled exoskeletons are somewhat of a reality today. I brainstorm I would bring this technological achievement up in light of the favoured moving picture Iron Man currently in theaters. No sign of trip capabilities notwithstanding. The uses of line span above than just the military setting - search and release, construction, and other industrial applications come to mind.
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