Koch Snowflake
The Koch Snowflake is a fractal, and, as you can see, two sizes of Koch Snowflakes in a 1:3 ratio of areas tile the plane. (Kudos to Eric Weisstein’s Mathworld for bringing the latter fact to my attention.)
For those of you now wondering, “what are fractals, anyway?” or “what does it even mean for a [...]
News from the Langmuir Group
Our first publication on the dynamics of Langmuir domains made it to print in the January issue of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, and we submitted a second paper to Physical Reviews E. Also, I made a very pretty movie which shows off the striking agreement between observation and the simulation’s predictions.
Last but not least, [...]
The State Education Monopoly
Last week Utah passed a school voucher bill, making it the first state to take a real step towards ending the state monopoly in primary education. This story only just now came to my attention, and it seems to be getting remarkably little news coverage. Andrew Coulson has some interesting commentary on the difficulties Utah’s [...]
Update
You may have noticed that it has been quite a while since I last posted. As far as my own life is concerned, I’m still unemployed and broke. And cursed.
I am actually starting to make some improvements to the website, however. As you likely noticed, I got rid of the long-standing “Under Construction” notice on [...]
