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Submission + - Cutting steel with flaming bacon weapons

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Ed Pegg

on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @10:46AM

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 ."

Submission + - Crunching political data (wolfram.com)

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Ed Pegg

on Thursday September 25, 2008 @10:56AM

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."

Submission + - Mathematica 6 launched

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Ed Pegg

on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @01:00PM

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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