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Cutting steel with flaming bacon weapons

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Ed Pegg
Ed Pegg writes "For Popular Science , Theo Gray demonstrates the Bacon Lance, a flaming meatsword that can cut through steel. Yes, with some ordinary bacon, and some pure oxygen, it's possible to cut through security doors. This comes out right after his profusely illustrated book of science experiments, Mad Science . When he's not working on experiments or his periodic table, Theo's alter-ego is a mild-mannered programmer for Mathematica ."
Math

Alpha of Wolfram|Alpha->

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Ed Pegg
Ed Pegg writes "Stephen Wolfram has announced an alpha of Wolfram|Alpha. In this blog post, the maker of Mathematica says that "It's certainly the most complex project I've ever undertaken." He further mentions it contains "trillions of pieces of curated data." Over at Wolfram|Alpha itself, there seems to be a sign-up sheet for Wolfram|Alpha alpha-testers."
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Math

Mathematica 7 Launched->

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Ed Pegg
Ed Pegg writes "Mathematica 7 has launched, as noted in Stephen Wolfram's blog post. Among the new features are huge equation typesetting, transcendental roots, and discrete calculus. Looking back at the version 6 discussion, it's perhaps inevitable that comparisons will be made to CAR, CGsuite, GAP, Geogebra, Geometer's Sketchpad, Geometry Expressions, Geonext, LaTeX, Magma, Maple, Matlab, nauty, noneuclid, Pari, Sage, or SeifertView. In other news, the Wolfram Demonstrations project now has over 4000 interactive math demos."
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Math

Crunching political data->

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Ed Pegg
Ed Pegg writes "For those that want to get their fingers stained red and blue with actual political data, resources beyond 538 and pollster can be accessed. In a blog item for Wolfram Research, Jeff Hamrick gives step by step details for how to import raw data from Mason-Dixon, Rasmussen, and Quinnipiac. Then he uses Mathematica to analyze the political data."
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Transportation

Tesla Roadster attacked by CARB->

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Ed Pegg
Ed Pegg writes "The Tesla Roadster was having a good week. Jay Leno just videoblogged it. Anyone who saw Who Killed the Electric Car will recall the villainry of the California Air Resources Board (CARB), which gutted most of the goals for zero-emission vehicles after an oil company stooge, Alan Lloyd, gained control. Most electric cars were then taken back by the automakers and sent to crushers. Now that Tesla Motors is rolling cars off the production line, the CARB is taking a new tactic to penalize Telsa Motors for making clean cars . The CARB public hearing will be March 27th (tomorrow) in Sacramento."
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Puzzle Games (Games)

Puzzles for National Puzzle Day

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Ed Pegg
Ed Pegg writes "According to a few sources, Jan 29 is National Puzzle Day. If you are tired of Crosswords or Sudoku, you can delve the rec.puzzles faq, try an Escape puzzle, do some Interactive fiction, try a Mathematical Demo, a multistate maze, buy Martin Gardner's complete math works, get some polyforms, or visit some notable puzzle sites like Thinkfun, Nikoli, NPL, Gray Labyrinth, Erich's page, or Jaap's page."
Math

Mathematica 6 launched

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Ed Pegg
Ed Pegg writes "Wolfram Research has just released Mathematica 6. That link, in addition to the usual 'dramatic breakthrough' material, has an amazing flash banner that simultaneously shows a thousand mathematical demonstrations all at once. The animations came from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project, a free service with 1200+ dynamically interactive examples of math, science, and physics (with code). For the product itself, much is new or improved, with built-in math databases, improved visualizations, and more."

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