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Italian declining in the United States 25 Aug 2013 | 10:13 pm
Came across an article in Italian here today about the declining numbers of speakers of Italian when taking into account the numbers in the 1980 census versus that done in 2011. These are numbers refe...
Maps of German dialects, word by word 22 Aug 2013 | 05:46 am
I think I'll be looking at these a lot tomorrow too. Looks like the data for this was gathered before Germany was reunified.
Easiest way to get to the lunar south pole 21 Aug 2013 | 04:49 pm
Here's how, complete with many a drawing. Our friend 24 Themis even makes an appearance in this post.
Why we're so interested in Ceres 18 Aug 2013 | 08:06 am
I missed this when it was being recorded, but here's the video in its entirety now: You can fast-forward to 6 minutes or 6:30 as before that is nothing, followed by a lot of hello, are you there? and...
Grasshopper now goes sideways 15 Aug 2013 | 04:15 am
Most impressive. Here's SpaceX's newest test of Grasshopper, this time moving to the side 100 metres instead of going straight up then straight down. Right near the end it looks like it's going to be ...
Ceres discussion in three days 13 Aug 2013 | 02:50 am
On the 15th the Dawn mission team will hold a discussion on Ceres, Dawn's upcoming target and by far the more interesting of the two targets for the probe (the other being 4 Vesta). To watch the talk,...
Now trying out Bliu Bliu 11 Aug 2013 | 09:31 pm
Bliu Bliu is pretty fun so far - it's a website for learning languages that seems somewhat similar to others like Lingq or Reading With Texts except that BB has an algorithm that guesses for you which...
European radio stations all in one spot 9 Aug 2013 | 04:10 am
My new favourite go to site is this one, a collection of radio stations in Europe by country, even sub-countries like the Faroe Islands and tiny ones like San Marino. Because they are grouped by count...
CAT Thruster Kickstarter fails to reach goal 7 Aug 2013 | 04:50 am
Unfortunately yet not too surprisingly, the CAT Thruster Kickstarter failed to reach the $200,000 goal it had set, reaching something over $60,000 by the end (which means they get $0). During the last...
Countries that don't have the US or EU as largest import partner 4 Aug 2013 | 03:48 am
The second part to yesterday's post, here are the countries that don't have the US or EU as their largest import partner. As with the countries yesterday, I did a bit of guesswork with the countries f...
