Archive for November, 2006

Mozilla wiki - collaborative Firefox creation

The development of Firefox has been a collaborative affair using a wiki to keep track of it all.

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Economic terrorism - the Nazi plot to ruin the Bank of England

The Nazis plotted to bring down the Bank of England by counterfeiting millions of British pound notes.

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The math parable

The Kingdom of Heaven is like 3x squared plus 8x minus 9

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More madness from Bush - escape to Mars

Let's put the Earth right before we go off spending billions to pollute Mars...

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SolarSailor - the green Australian solar ferry

The SolarSailor is a true hybrid vehicle, a brilliant design that deserves to do well.

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Peddlers of cancer

Why is the tobacco industry still allowed to sell its poisons after all the experiences of the 20th century?

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Greek fonts in LiveMath

Sometimes the LiveMath plugin replaces normal fonts with Greek characters.

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The IntMath Newsletter - Nov 2006

In this newsletter:
1. Real life math example - Toto
2. This month's math tip
3. Latest from the math blog

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IBM, the e-organisation

IBM is showing the way in developing a knowledge creation organisation using the Web - and it has implicaitons for education.

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The engineer, the physicist and the mathematician

Is pure mathematics worth doing? Should students always see an immediate application for what they are doing?

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