How to make Hot Chocolate.

I found an interesting video about how to make Hot Chocolate, the presenter has a captivating charisma that makes you feel that you know him. Personally I prefer to make Chocolicks, by combining one spoonful of Bournville Cocoa powder with several spoonfuls of Horlicks. As the presenter says, variety is the spice of life. Horlicks [...]

Error Opening Tex file on Debian.

Trying to open tex file by Debian gnome nautlius interface… The filename “file.tex” indicates that this file is of type “tex document”. The contents of the file indicate that the file is of type “TeX document”. If you open this file, the file might present a security risk to your system. Do not open the [...]

French President has Answer to America’s Market problems.

Nicolas Sarkozy is one of the voices for more interventionism… “Let us rebuild together regulated capitalism, in which whole swathes of financial activity are not left up to market operators, in which banks do their job of financing development instead of encouraging speculation, and where rules of caution apply to all, to avert shocks, instead [...]

How fast Usain Bolt could have run?

Some Physicists (H. K. Eriksen, J. R. Kristiansen, O. Langangen, I. K. Wehus) have calculated how fast Usain Bolt would run, if he did not start to celebrate before the finishing line. The paper is available at http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0209 By digitising video footage and then fitting a smoothed spline they are able to give estimates of [...]

Biofuels Green? On your Bike!

Growing crops to produce fuel should increasingly be seen as a red-herring in terms of it’s green credentials. It has a large negative impact by increasing food prices, putting people under new pressures, and will lead to more intensive agriculture and reduced sustainability. But the energy produced by these crops could be used far more [...]