Sesame Street was an amazing show.

I thought I would share some of these old Sesame Street songs with everyone. They are not all about Math/Science, but the first one is!

Born To Add

Listen to the Bells

Rebel L

Kids Just Love to Brush (I love the squeaks she makes in this song)

Angle Dance from Square One (Credit goes entirely to Noel, I forgot about this one)

I miss being a kid and watching these.

What is the output of the following C program?

Just thought I would share a little piece of hell with all of you. What does the following program print?

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#include 
void main()
{
     char *c[] = {"ENTER","NEW","POINT","FIRST"};
     char **cp[] = { c+3, c+2, c+1, c };
     char ***cpp = cp;
     printf("%s", **++cpp );
     printf("%s ", *--*++cpp+3);
     printf("%s", *cpp[-2]+3);
     printf("%s\n", cpp[-1][-1]+1);
}

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Pointerstew

Interview with a medium, the tough questions...

For some reason I read this interview with a psychic(oops, I mean medium...) and I am struck by the inanity of the questions. So here are questions I would like to put to this lady if I ever meet her. Feel free to add to these questions.

1. You say that the dead have memories of life, but also they do not have physical form. How is this possible, when the storing of memory appears to be linked to the physical structure of the brain? An example would be brain damage leading to memory loss. Wouldn't death be the ultimate brain damage?

2. You say that the dead have no physical form, yet also say they have tried to have sex with you(seriously?). How is this possible when sex is a physical act?

3. Do you see them with your eyes or hear them with your ears? If not, why do you say they appear to you in clothes?

4. If the dead don't have the 5 senses(as you claim) how can a dimensional choice(whatever that means), involve something like wonderful music or beautiful scenery?

Ultimately it seems like this sort of reality is exceptionally complex and improbable. What seems far more likely is people like this lady are so full of shit, they can't help having it come out of their mouths.

"Now we are all sons of bitches."

The quote above was spoken by Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, on July 16, 1945, sixty-three years ago today, after the detonation of the first atomic bomb.

I advocate scientific research and education nearly above all else, but we need to remember all advances must walk hand in hand with responsibility and maturity. By learning about the structure of matter, we also gained the ability to extinguish hundreds of thousands of lives in a matter of milliseconds.

Research cannot and should not operate in a vacuum. I would never advocate halting advances, but they must happen with the knowledge of the consequences. I ask that everyone, including myself, think about what happened 63 years ago and how it changed the world.