Ririan project offers 4 advices (called easy lifestyles) to avoid to get a cold. It’s really relevant during winter. I reproduced the 4 easy lifestyle below:
1: Start your day with the antiviral breakfast: They suggest to take a big breakfast: 1200 calories with oatmael, bananas, eggs, jam, orange juice,etc.
2: Get your head down and get […]

This very long article from the New York times describes the way nutrition has evolved in the last 20 years. The bottom line is that neither nutritionism nor science are able to provide relevant advices to really prepare healthy meals. The author MICHAEL POLLAN, nevertheless propose a set of “nutrition rule of thumb” based mostly […]

The video below shows some people making experiences in a pool filled with a non-newtonian fluid. A non-newtonian fluid is a fluid which the viscosity changes with the applied strain rate. Toothpaste is a Non-Newtonian fluid that we use everyday. By default, Toothpaste behaves like a solid. A minimum pressure must be applied to make […]

Mark C. Chu-Carroll  of Good Math published an interesting post on “C” language efficiency. He demonstrates that C or C++ are not the more efficient languages for numerical calculations like computational fluid dynamics. He takes the alias detection example: C or C++ compiler are unable to identify if two variables might be referencing the same […]

A nice flash web site has been created to promote Rob Bryanton’s book “Imagining the tenth dimension”. The introduction states:
“In string theory, physicists tell us that the subatomic particles that make up our universe are created within ten spatial dimensions (plus an eleventh dimension of “time”) by the vibrations of exquisitely small “superstrings”. The average […]