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Monthly Archives: October 2008

“Drill, Baby, Drill!”

Thursday, October 16, 2008

“Drill, Baby, Drill!” We have heard this phrase constantly since the Republican convention. The thought behind this chant is that increased American oil production will lead to lower gas prices. This idea is based on supply and demand. With a constant demand, increasing supply should lower the price of a resource. Drilling in the US [...]

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Published!

Monday, October 13, 2008

The work I did on Turing patterns in a modified Lotka–Volterra model has been published in the International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos. (DOI: 10.1142/S0218127408021671) Unfortunately, the IJBC doesn’t have free online access. . . .

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Gas prices and world car and bicycle production

Friday, October 3, 2008

(This is a re-post from last week. The original post disappeared in the server change.)
I saw a graph of car and bicycle production in The Economist. The article was On your bike: Obesity and high oil prices are good news for the world’s biggest bikemaker. This was one of the many recent stories on the [...]

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Amazing eclipse pictures

Thursday, October 2, 2008

I found this picture linked from APOD. The 2008 eclipse pictures on Miloslav Druckmüller’s site are by far the best use of HDR type photography I have seen. Most of the time people overdo the processing. This is perfect.

Praesepae, Mercury, Moon, Comet and Corona up to 20 solar radii(© 2008 Miloslav Druckmüller, Peter Aniol, Vojtech [...]

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