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What do you care what other people think, Richard Feynman (ISBN 978-0393355642, W. W. Norton & Company)
This is the follow up of the bestselling Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman. It is quite a bit thinner, only 230 pages or so and of a different nature. Where Surely You’re Joking had a lot of relatively short funny stories with Feynman playing the ‘comedian’ this book is a lot more serious in tone. This has a lot to do with the stories that are bundled in this book. The first part is mainly focusing on his younger years, how he met Arline; how they got married and discovered she had tuberculosis on until her death. The second half…
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Star Trek 7. Generations
As the title suggests this is the first Star Trek movie with the TNG crew starring. It is actually a transition from TOS to TNG in the sense that a couple of the old crew still appear at the beginning of the movie when Kirk, Scottie and Chekov join the maiden voyage of Enterprise B as guests. The promotion tour including press on board turns into a rescue mission for a couple of El Aurian space ships trapped in a energy ribbon. The Enterprise also gets caught in the energy ribbon during the rescue and Kirk is pulled into space…
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Philips Natlab. Kraamkamer van ASML, NXP en de CD, Paul van Gerven (ISBN 978-082707410, Techwatch Books)
Ik kwam dit boek toevallig tegen in een artikel en heb het gelijk gekocht vanwege de link van Natlab met ASML. Het is een kleine 400 pagina’s dik maar ik heb het deze week voor de tweede keer gelezen en het was in 4 dagen uit. Voor wie interesse heeft in technologie uit de lage landen is dit eigenlijk verplichte kost. Het is bovendien vlot geschreven want anders had ik het niet in 4 dagen uitgelezen. Omdat de productontwikkeling vaak een race tegen de klok was lezen vele hoofdstukken bijna als een thriller. Het Natlab ontstond in 1914 en groeide…
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Star Trek 6. The Undiscovered Country
Star Trek 6 begins like many of the previous Star Trek movies with titling against a starry sky. But the accompanying music score is uncharacteristically ominous. This creates certain expectations and the movie doesn’t disappoint. This is the last Star Trek movie with the TOS crew and it ends with a thriller in whodunnit in Agatha Christie style with Spock taking the role of Hercule Poirot. A few months before retirement Kirk and his crew have to go on a diplomatic mission to escort the Klingon high chancellor to a meeting with the federation to discuss a peace treaty. The…
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Oefening 3
Bepaal de nulwaarden van de volgende veeltermen in de onbepaalde x: a) A(x) = 3x – 2 A(x) = 0 ⇔3x – 2 = 0 ⇔3x = 2 ⇔x = ⅔ b) B(x) = 2×2 – 5 B(x) = 0 ⇔ 2×2 – 5 = 0 ⇔ 2×2 = 5 ⇔ x2 = 5⁄2 ⇔ x = ∓√(5⁄2) c) C(x) = -x2 – 4 C(x) = 0 ⇔ -x2 – 4 = 0 ⇔ -x2 = 4 ⇔ x2 = – 4 no real solutions d) D(x) = 3⁄4 x4 D(x) = 0 ⇔ 3⁄4 x4 = 0 ⇔ x…
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Writing Fractions In HTML
I have been thinking about digitising my notes of mathematics and physics exercises done over the years and one option would be to add them to my blog. As I don’t have a business subscription I cannot use a math editor. One option available to me is to use LATEX but for some of the easiest cases this is not even necessary. If the only thing you want to do is write numeric fractions then this can be accomplished with a little bit of html code. I read a book about html 20 years ago and not all that long…
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Star Trek 5. The Final Frontier
After the 3 movie story arc spanning over Star Trek 2, 3 and 4 we have an independent story again in Star Trek 5. This movie is Spock versus anti-Spock aka Sybok in search of God. Sybok is a Vulcan half brother of Spock and a heretic that adheres to ways from before the Vulcans became rational. Sybok believes in ancient Vulcan ways based on the power of emotion. He believes he has found the location of the legendary planet Sha Ka Ree where God resides. The story has the classical themes of Star Trek : emotion versus ratio, good…
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Star Trek 4. The Voyage Home
This is the last movie of the story that began in Star Trek 2. After having found the reborn Spock on planet Genesis and giving him his Katra back on Vulcan we start off where Star Trek 3 ended and Kirk and crew including Spock go back to Earth to face trial. But in the meantime a mysterious probe has reached Earth that is ionising the atmosphere and disabling all electronic equipment. En route to Earth Spock realises that the probe is speaking whale language but because the whales are extinct in the 23rd century the probe isn’t getting an…
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Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman. Adventures of a Curious Character, Richard P. Feynman (ISBN 978-0393355628, W. W. Norton)
I read this book in a Dutch translation a long time ago. And last week, looking for some light reading in the ‘scientific’ section I picked this up from the shelf. I had bought the English edition a few months back as I had given the Dutch translation to my daughter. I figured it was possibly an easy introduction to physics. Having read it again I am not sure as it is mostly about the scientific mindset. All the stories are about things that happened to Feynman in his life but underneath there runs this steady constant current about how…
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Star Trek 3. The Search for Spock.
The third Star Trek movie is a true sequel to the second one so you really should have seen the second one to understand the story. The first Star Trek movie on the other hand is an independent story which you can watch on its own. With the dramatic ending of the second movie and the loss of one of the main characters in this movie the story is picked up again with the crew returning home still trying to recover emotionally from the events in The Wrath of Kahn. This is of course impossible and Kirk and his crew…
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