I would call this a beautiful scientific result (with immediate practical applications!). If the ground does not raise by more than about 35 degrees between any two points and if the legs of the table are at least half as long as its diagonals, a rectangular table that wobbles initially can always be balanced.
→ Read more World leaders’ youth photos
Since I was mentioning Mr. Putin in a previous post, here’s where you can see photos of him in his youth. Next to photos from when they were young(er) of other past or present political leaders from all over the world, such as Tony Blair, George W.
→ Read more Russian politics: chess or judo?
This is an interesting weekend interview in the WSJ with Garry Kasparov, who is apparently taking very seriously his role as ‘moderator’ for the “Other Russia” coalition (moderator so far; as the editor notes, Kasparov does not necessarily exclude representing the “Other Russia” as its presidential candidate, with hopes of checkmating Putin).
→ Read more YouTube to share its ad revenues with its clip contributors
I can’t see yet how this arrangement will work in practice (probably it hasn’t been worked out in detail by the YouTube owners, either), but this announcement should certainly please the most creative video contributors to YouTube.
→ Read more Sundance Festival ’07: The Jury Prize for International Short Filmmaking goes to Radu Jude’s “Lampa cu Caciula” (“The Tube with the Hat”)
See the full list of prizes for jury and audience awards, among which Radu Jude’s Romanian film “Lampa cu Caciula” (the Tube with the Hat). And see this (23 min long) film here – spoken in Romanian, with subtitles in English (you can watch all short films participating here).
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