Reuben

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Name: Reuben Gann
Date registered: 11/30/-0001

Latest posts

  1. An illuminating trip to the Microsoft store — 12/29/2013
  2. Netflix streaming continues to founder as dozens of prominent movies are taken down — 12/28/2013
  3. Saints Row IV is the most fun I've had playing a game — 11/19/2013
  4. Statisticians need to see how experimental science really works, then shut up about it — 11/13/2013
  5. Surface Pro 2: first impressions — 10/24/2013

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Dec 03 2008

Hours and minute hands

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Science

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Consider the following, seemingly simple question: how many times does the minute hand overlap the hour hand on an analog clock? Well, the rotation rates are just for the minute hand, and for the hour hand. The minute hand moves 12 times as fast. I could simply write down the angular position of the hands …

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Nov 11 2008

That old feeling

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Politics

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Coming out of nearly a decade of Republican rule, in a major recession, a charismatic democrat is coming to power talking of health reform and the middle class, we've still got troops in Iraq, Guns and Roses and Metallica just released their new records, and the rest of music is in a shitty festering heap …

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Nov 06 2008

Post-election thoughts

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General

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I think the feeling of general malaise that I felt on Tuesday evening was the same as what many other people were feeling. Like rising too quickly from a high pressure environment, I had a bit of the emotion bends. For one thing, I've paid nearly unending attention to the election, and it didn't really …

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Oct 07 2008

Why I support Barack Obama

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Politics

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Barack Obama essentially sealed the deal on the election tonight, and as someone who said in November of last year, in response to Jessica's query of who the next president would be, that it would be Obama, I'd like to detail why I think this is a good thing. Obama can be a bit of …

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Oct 03 2008

Bill Maher is not the spokesman we need

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General, Science

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Thomas Henry Huxley was Charles Darwin's public face in the 19th century. He acted as the public advocate for evolution, engaging in a well publicized debate with the English bishop Samuel Wilberforce. Huxley was a prominent biologist, a scientist and great thinker, open to new ideas, though skeptical, and, so far as I am aware, …

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