Some random trivia here. In the Masterpiece Theatre version of Jane Eyre, St. John hands Jane a couple books and tells her to begin learning a new language. This was his typically controlling way of telling her she was going to become a missionary with him as well as his wife. Curious about which language [...]
Archive for 4 January 2008
Xhosa
Posted: 4 January 2008 in UncategorizedTags: 19th century, books, charlotte bronte, dictionaries, jane eyre, languages, south africa, xhosa
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Dinklefwat 5
Posted: 4 January 2008 in UncategorizedTags: comic strips, discoveries, ernst mach, philosophy of science, user friendly
User Friendly, another beloved comic strip I subscribe to, poses the interesting question (generalized): what if someone else discovered X? Ernst Mach deduced and experimentally verified the idea that an object moving faster than the speed of sound would produce a shockwave in the shape of a cone with the object at the apex. The [...]
