Please don’t be shocked, but yes this is arleady the second post about a book in kind a short time (at least for normal Sascha-like behaviour)…
The Encyclopedia of the Unknowingness, unfortunately only available in German (“Lexikon des Unwissens”) so far, tries to describe several of today’s unsolved miracles.
It gives an introduction to subjects like the lifecycle of eels, dark matter, yawning, ball-lightnings, the functionality of sticky tape, the Riemann hypothesis, and many more…
A bit too many “funny” comments in my opinion though… otherwise very interesting!
Measuring the World
In the same manner as I use to comment movies I’ve seen I am gonna start it for books now, even though this will happen by far less often.
Anyway… During my holidays in Greece I read a book written by Daniel Kehlmann called “Measuring the World”.
It’s I nice book about Mr. Gauss (the one with the distribution, etc.) and Mr. Humboldt (the brother of the founder of my university) that Troels recommended to read.
It’s originally a German book, that’s why the picture/link is German. For all others heres the English link even though it’s on the German Amazon.
Physics gives me a hadron!
Sorry for my infatile humour and writing insider jokes on my blog, but today I heard about this nice groupname at facebook… haven’t checked out the group or even facebook itself though!
It’s stupid… I know, but still in a way quite genius, isn’t it!
Transformers
Yesterday I watched the new Transformers movie… It’s kind of good, actually exactly as I expected it, which is good enough… one of my favourite critics said something like following about the movie: “after loud comes simply loader”. Which is probably right… but I guess that’s one of the reasons you go to action movies?!
In addition it was a great revival of the time I got up at six on the weekend to see e.g. the Transformers cartoons ;-)
btw this picture/link is for the original “Transformers – The Movie”, not the one that’s in cinemas right now…
Jassas
as the Greek use to say for “Hello”!
I just came back from eleven beautiful days in Greece. To be even more precise on Crete.
To sumarise in short words: It was too damn hot!
To give it a little more: It was beautiful… we saw a shit load of things, beautiful beaches, canyons, villages and more…
I’ll post some pictures here and fill up my gallery later ;-)