Today I Learned

[zoki85]

Today I learned about popularity of a superellipse shape watching this super egg video

 

[Nathanael]

Today I learned about popularity of a superellipse shape watching this super egg video

Today I learned that x^∞+y^∞=1 tends towards a square.

 

[dlgoff]

Today I learned why I don't like roundabouts.

 

[Bystander]

Today I learned why I don't like roundabouts.

Stay the *#$% away from Colorado.

 

[Bystander]

"TIL" that "Murphy" never sleeps. Just try shoving two carriage bolts with orthogonal orientations through a piece of timber without having them intersect.

 

[jim hardy]

"TIL" that "Murphy" never sleeps. Just try shoving two carriage bolts with orthogonal orientations through a piece of timber without having them intersect.

And when they collided it boogered the threads just enough that the nut spins the bolt so one of the holes will round out to where the square neck doesn't engage the wood and you can't tighten it up...

 

[Bystander]

... or, I have to decide which to sacrifice by drilling through it --- inevitably with a woodworking bit that I'll have to regrind.

 

[jim hardy]

Indeed, Murphy is an optimist..

 

[Bystander]

A malicious optimist.

 

[HiggsBoson1]

Today I learned that "Ah, Satan sees Natasha," when spelled backwards, reads, "Ah, Satan sees Natasha."

 

[Borek]

Today I learned that "Ah, Satan sees Natasha," when spelled backwards, reads, "Ah, Satan sees Natasha."

But have you learned it is a palindrome?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Today I learned that "Ah, Satan sees Natasha," when spelled backwards, reads, "Ah, Satan sees Natasha."

I get: "ahsatan sees nataS ,hA."

 

[collinsmark]

I get: "ahsatan sees nataS ,hA."

Capitalization, punctuation and white spaces are allowed to slide. It's a generally accepted compromise to increase the never-ending joy of palindrome fun. :w

 

[nsaspook]

That most Oregon state employees are good honest people.
http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-32827-gov_john_kitzhabers_office_sought_to_destroy_thous.html

 

[Silicon Waffle]

Today I learned that doctors sometimes also check one's coccyx to analyze his headache's possible causes.

 

[zoki85]

Today I learned I need more sleep than I thought.

 

[epenguin]

Yes I often find I need more sleep than I

 

[Enigman]

Today I learned I need more sleep than I thought.

I probably need more thought than sleep.

 

[phinds]

Today I learned that what all of my life I have been calling Fresnel lenses, pronounced "fres-nel" is really pronounced "fre-nel" with a silent "s" because those damned French keep throwing away perfectly good letters.

 

[epenguin]

Today I learned I do know a number of things not a lot of people know. http://www.puma-project.eu/yacs/smileys/images/medal_half.gif
I was just reminded that the disease that 30 years ago I though must be Duchesne is in fact Duchenne.
But today I learned that Duchenne was not the first to recognise and describe it but two Neapolitan physicians Givoanni Semmola and Gaetano Conte. And Neapolitans should surely be credited for everything possible, considering that not all that much is. But Duchenne extended and deepened the descriptions and today I also learned he was the first to perform a biopsy on a living patient. (Almost all from Wikipedia).

In recent days I discovered that either I or a lot of people do not understand electrolysis, but for fear it might be the first I say no more.

 

[NascentOxygen]

Today I learned that what all of my life I have been calling Fresnel lenses, pronounced "fres-nel" is really pronounced "fre-nel" with a silent "s" because those damned French keep throwing away perfectly good letters.

How have you been pronouncing "Thevenin" & "Euler"?

 

[phinds]

How have you been pronouncing "Thevenin" & "Euler"?

I've had them as "fres-nel" too.

 

[Bystander]

Poincare' and Tchepone?

 

[phinds]

Poincare' and Tchepone?

Yep, also "Fres-nel".

 

[zoobyshoe]

I've had them as "fres-nel" too.

Hmm. For "Thevenin" I get "FREZ -nel" and for "Euler" I get "Frez-NELL".

 

[Borek]

Thief in and oiler?

 

[Bystander]

Thief in and oiler?

First? I don't know. Second? That's the way I've always heard it from people I believe. Come on, now --- give us the rest.

 

[zoki85]

Today I learned I have problems with reading my own handwrite from teen days.

 

[phinds]

Today I learned I have problems with reading my own handwrite from teen days.

Hell, that's nothing. I have trouble reading my own handwriting from YESTERDAY.

 

[NascentOxygen]

First? I don't know. Second? That's the way I've always heard it from people I believe. Come on, now --- give us the rest.

The rest? The list is never ending. Van der Waals; avoirdupois measures.

I learned Thévenin is tay-ven-in (I tried to type that without hyphens but the tablet changes it to "tay even in" without confirming any changes with me!)