The Fermi Problem

How Fermi could estimate things!

Like the well-known Olympic ten rings.

And the one hundred states,

And weeks with ten dates,

And birds that all fly with one wings.

Beware the power of 10.

talktobastianbitch:

Merkel said she would support nobody on Saturday

pls we all know you will support Bayern because you have a crush on zis guy:

Reading list update

Science-related:

• The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
• The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
• The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking
• The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
• A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

For personal interest only:

• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Fahreinheit-451 by Ray Bradbury
• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
• The Trial by Franz Kafka
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
• Quie Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokov
• Havana Bay by Martin Cruz Smith
• Wolves Eat Dogs by Martin Cruz Smith
• Stalin’s Ghost by Martin Cruz Smith
• Three Stations by Martin Cruz Smith
• Six Graves to Munich by Mario Puzo
• Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
• Physicists by Friedrich Durrenmatt
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The first thing I did in the lab today was breaking the uncertainty principle.

good job.