Saturday, 3 February 2018

Who was Rudolph Lipschitz?

Who was the mysterious Rudolph Lipschitz, from whom the famous Lipschitz Continuity gets its name? He was a German mathematician born in 1832 in Konigsberg (now Kaliningrad in Russia, the administrative centre of the Kaliningrad oblast). He studied with Gustave Dirichlet of number theory fame (also credited with introducing the modern notion of a function) at the University of Berlin. He passed away in 1903 in Bonn.

Tuesday, 23 January 2018

What is a WEC?

A WEC is a wave energy converter. The European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney has a classification for different types of WECs, ranging from Attenuator to Rotating Mass converters.

Sidebar - The largest island on the Orkney archipelago (roughly 70 islands) is Mainland, derived from Old Norse Meginland.

Sunday, 7 January 2018

War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)

Andy Serkis plays Caesar. Nassau County-born Matt Reeves directs. With a $150m budget, and $490m box office, WOPA was a financial success. Novelist Pierre Boulle created the concept underlying the franchise with his 1963 novel "La Planète des Singes" (initially released in the UK as "Monkey Planet").

Sunday, 12 November 2017

Lime Plaster

Lime plaster is a type of plaster consisting of sand, water and lime. One of the earliest known examples of its use is at Ain Ghazaal in Jordan.

Sunday, 22 October 2017

Reinventing Bathrooms

The Duravit line also sports matching bathroom furniture.

Reinventing Radio

Ruark Audio makes modern radios.

Sunday, 1 October 2017

What is the Ecliptic?

The ecliptic is the circular path on the celestial sphere that the sun appears to follow over the course of the year. Earth's own rotation makes the ecliptic difficult to observe.