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Above is Melolontha melolontha, the common cockchafer or May bug. It is a member of the Scarabaeidae family. There are over 20 000 species in the world in this family, 300 in Europe, and 89 in the British Isles. They range in size from 0.2 - 17 cm.
The Scarabaeidae contain two main groups, the dung beetles and the plant-eating chafers.
Adults. Chafer adults usually have the final segment of their abdomen just visible from above. Both groups have the characteristic lamellate club antennae formed by the last 3 - 7 segments of the antennae this can be clearly seen in the photographs of dung beetles below. Usually the adults have short, strong legs useful for digging.
Larvae. Scarabid grubs (see the drawing below) usually develop in the soil and feed on roots (chafers), or are found in dung or decaying organic matter. And they are always the characteristic "C" shape.
The cockchafer female has a shorter antennae club than the male. The male's antennae end in 7 flaps that can be opened up and closed like a fan. Each flap is studded with sensory pits receptive to the chemical signal released by the female. When opened like a fan the male has a better chance at detecting the chemical molecules. When the flaps are closed it means he is not seeking a mate. The female has only 6 flaps. The elytra (wing cases) are reddish brown. Cockchafers range in size from 20 - 35 mm.
Although very large and heavy they do fly, and the drawing above show the position of the front wing cases during flight, and at rest. When they fly they make a buzzing noise which can be alarming, but they are harmless.
Their flight speed has been recorded as 3.0 metres per second with a wing beat of 46 per second. Compare this with other insects.
The adults eat flowers and foliage.
The female deposits her eggs about 15 cm below the soil surface. The larva, see above, eat plant roots, with grass roots being preferred. They feed near the surface during warm months, and become inactive during winter. The drawing on the right is of a three-year-old larva. They can grow up to 60 mm long. They have a shiny brown head and legs, with a dirty white body. The larvae are sometimes called rookworms as rooks are supposedly fond of eating them. They live on this diet for three - four years before digging a burrow and pupating in an oval cell about 60 cm deep in the soil, see below.
Pupation takes a month, but the adult will remain in the pupation cell until spring. The adult beetles emerge from the soil around May, which is why they are also known as May bugs. They are found in Europe and temperate areas in Asia.
Above is Cetonia aurata it is a brilliant golden green above and coppery underneath, though the colours can vary. The elytra have irregular transverse white streaks. The larva feeds on plant roots, humus and rotten wood especially beneath elm stumps, and can be considered a pest. The larvae grow up to 50 mm long, the have a brown head and legs, and a dirty white body.
The adults fly from April until September and are commonly found in flowers where they feed on pollen. Their maxillae are modified to form pads tufts and brushes to collect the pollen. The adults are unusual in that they can fly with their elytra (wing cases) closed, unlike other beetles which have to fly with their elytra open. They range in size from 14 - 20 mm.
The Goliath beetle, above, is the heaviest beetle. Body length for males is 50 - 110 mm, and females are 50 - 80 mm. Above you can see the characteristic black and white or cream markings of the adult. The males have a relatively small Y-shaped horn which they use to fend off other males when they are competing for females to mate with. In the wild they are found in the tropical forests of Africa.
Despite its huge size this beetle is a frequent and strong flier. Adults live on tree sap and fruit. In captivity adults can live for a year. Soon after it emerges as an adult the beetle searches for a mate. The female lays her eggs, which measure 4 x 2 mm, singly underground. The eggs hatch in around 2 weeks.
Larvae live in the soil, and in captivity they are often reared on cat or dog food. When young the larvae can have cannibalistic tendencies. In good conditions they are fully grown and ready to pupate in around four months. A fully grown larva can reach 130 mm long and weigh 100 g. Pupation takes place in the soil. In the wild they usually pupate during the dry season, and emerge as an adult as the rains start.
Above is a preserved specimen of an adult male elephant beetle. They are found in South-East Asia and Northern Australia, but now can be found in captivity worldwide as they make popular pets.
The adult length is very variable 35 - 70 mm. All are black and very shiny. Only the male has the two-pronged horn on his head. He uses it to knock other males out of the way when he smells a female.
When disturbed adults can make a sound that has been described as a hiss or a squeak. This is made by rubbing the abdomen against the elytra (wing cases). After mating the female lays around 50 white eggs in decaying vegetation. Adults are nocturnal.
The Hercules beetle, Dynastes hercules, above, is one of the longest beetles in the world. It is one of the beetles commonly known as the Rhinoceros beetles. It is found in the South and Central American jungles where it forages on decaying fruit and plant material in the littler on the forest floor. Only the males have the enormous horns which can make up more than 50% of their entire body length. Adult males can be 170 mm long and weigh up to 85 g. The horns are used in fending off rival males. The beetle gets the name Hercules as an adult male can lift 850 times his own body weight. Although the females do not have the enormous horns, they do actually have larger bodies than the males.
The larva lives inside and eats rotting wood. The larval stage lasts around 2 years, and a fully grown larva can weigh up to 120 g. Fallen trees and rotting stumps are the main larval habitats.
Above is an adult male Chalcosoma atlas, a Rhinoceros beetle. Adult males are 60 - 130 mm long, and females 25 - 60 mm long. As with all Rhinoceros beetles the male uses his horns to fight off rivals for the female he hopes to mate with. They are native to Southern Asia, especially Malaysia. Although these beetles are popular as pets they can be aggressive if disturbed, both larvae and adults will bite.
The larvae eat rotting wood, and eat their way through stumps and fallen trunks. The adults eat fallen fruits.
Hercules beetle numbers have greatly decreased due to deforestation and pollution.
Their main predators are bats, rats, birds and small mammals.
Below is the larva of of the sun beetle, and above is the adult. These are sold as pets and are quite easy to rear if kept at room temperature. The grubs are also reared to be fed to reptiles.
Above is an Ansioplia sp., these are found in central Europe. Note the lamellate antennae.
The adults live mainly on cereal and grass flowers, and the larvae on grass roots. They tend to be found on warm, dry slopes with sandy soil.
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CANBERRA, Australia — Seven-month-old Gammy, who was born with Down syndrome and a congenital heart condition, is being cared for by his young Thai surrogate mother after his Australian biological parents left him behind in Thailand, taking home only his healthy twin sister.
Now the Australian government says it is considering intervening in the case, with the country's immigration minister saying Monday that the little blond, brown-eyed boy might be entitled to Australian citizenship.
Pattaramon Chanbua, a 21-year-old food vendor who has two young children of her own, says she met the Australian couple only once, when the babies were born, and knew only that they lived in Western Australia state. The couple has not been publicly identified.
Australian Immigration Minister Scott Morrison called Pattaramon "an absolute hero" and "a saint," but said the law surrounding the case "is very, very murky."
"We are taking a close look at what can be done here, but I wouldn't want to raise any false hopes or expectations," Morrison told Sydney Radio 2GB. "We are dealing with something that has happened in another country's jurisdiction."
Morrison's office later said in a statement that "the child may be eligible for Australian citizenship," though it did not elaborate. Australian citizens are entitled to free health care in Australia.
Speaking Sunday from her Thai seaside town of Sri Racha, Pattaramon said that she was not angry with the biological parents for leaving Gammy behind, and that she hoped they would take good care of his twin sister.
"I've never felt angry at them or hated them. I'm always willing to forgive them," Pattaramon told The Associated Press. "I want to see that they love the baby girl as much as my family loves Gammy. I want her to be well taken care of."
Pattaramon was promised 300,000 baht ($9,300) by a surrogacy agency in Bangkok, Thailand's capital, to be a surrogate for the Australian couple, but says she has not been fully paid since the babies were born last December.
She said the agency knew about Gammy's condition four or five months after she became pregnant but did not tell her. It wasn't until the seventh month of her pregnancy that the doctors and the agency told her the twin boy had Down syndrome and suggested that she abort the fetus.
Pattaramon recalled strongly rejecting the idea, believing that having an abortion would be sinful. "I asked them, 'Are you still humans?' I really wanted to know," she said.
An online campaign by the Australian charity organization Hands Across the Water to help Gammy has raised more than $215,000 since July 22.
Mora Kelly, founder of the Children First Foundation, which brings sick children from developing countries to Australia for medical treatment, said she had discussed with Hands Across the Water the possibility of bringing Gammy to the Australian city of Melbourne for heart surgery.
"I believe that this child should be able to access our health care system here in Australia," Kelly told Australian Broadcasting Corp. "This child, in essence ... should be an Australian citizen."
But Hands Across the Water founder and chairman Peter Baines said Pattaramon and her family's wishes would need to be considered in any decision to fly Gammy to Australia.
"Certainly our position is that there is no need to bring Gammy out to Australia," Baines said. "There's a high level of medical care available in Thailand and there's nothing to my knowledge that indicates he's suffering from something that can't be treated in Thailand."
Gammy was moved from a public to a private hospital on Saturday and is being treated for a lung infection. Heart surgery has not yet been scheduled, Baines said.
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Today's stage up the Blockhaus will undoubtedly provide some huge fireworks and may prove to finally solidify the true contenders for the maglia rosa. Unlike most mountain top finishes, the riders will hit the slopes of the Blockhaus after only 36 mostly flat miles. Add in the fact that this stage follows the Giro's second rest day and you will have the scenario of a lot of racers who think they can win the stage.
This scenario is pretty uncommon in the grand tours. Back in 1991, the Tour de France rolled up to Alpe d'Huez with only flat miles in their legs instead of a couple of category 1 ascents such as the Galibier, Glandon or the Croix de Fer. What transpired at the bottom of the Alpe was an explosion as both the stage hunters and overall riders were swept up in a wave of aspirations. Two groups of riders with different goals, but riding side-by-side up one of the world's most storied climbs.
The GC riders don't like this type of situation. They have to ride harder and punchier(not steady) than they would like in the third week of a grand tour. The guys going for the stage win will launch attack after attack and they GC riders usually respond. This has changed a bit with power meters and riders knowing what they can and cannot do on the bike, but still there is a group mentality which pervades and unless the GC riders call a truce, they can get sucked up into the fray.
Guys like Levi Leipheimer aren't punchy riders and a stage like today could cause him more difficulty. Personally, I hope not, but Levi may have a tough decision to make whether to ride within himself or go with the moves. The podium is on the line for the Team Astana rider which makes the decision even more difficult.
The final ascent is a 17km(11-mile) 1200m(4000') climb that averages about 7%. This should take the top riders about 45-minutes. Look for racers like Menchov, Sastre and Basso to be forcing the pace with Di Luca hanging on near the front. BTW, Ivan Basso won here in 2006 on his way to his first, and only, overall Giro win.
In the late 1960's Eddy Merckx won his first ever mountain-top finish in a grand tour. A few years later, the Giro hosted a similar stage as today in the morning and then ran a 200+km flatter stage in the afternoon. These "split stages" were common in grand tours up until the 1990's. Nowadays the UCI has outlawed them.
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Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) might be curious who is funding an attack ad blaming her for job losses, especially now when she's increasingly in danger losing her own job.
All the ad said was "Paid for by Citizens for Strength and Security." Turns out the citizens are unions.
According to a new government filing, the group's ad was funded by the Service Employees International Union ($220,000), the Communications Workers of America ($200,000) and the Patriot Majority Fund ($280,000). Patriot Majority itself is funded mainly by labor unions.
Patriot Majority is, like Citizens for Strength and Security, a 527 organization run by a Democratic operative with ads targeting Senate races. Why not just merge?
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Yes. No one will ever make money on real estate ever again. Or software.
The candidates all say that they have "No plans to slow down the economy." Hopefully someone in charge will understand that we've reached the limits to growth and are limited to "Fad Investing" to try to make a quick buck.
credit cycles are a part of history.
You might notice that MArxism kinda of had a bubble there, too, for a few deacades.
But it burst.
USSR-all of Eastern Europe -- they gave up on the socialism thing.
China -- very capitalist now. Same with Vietnam.
That leaves us with North Korea, and Cuba.
All this word play about dialectics and bubbles leads us to the political position that.....gee, maybe we should regulate capitalism a bit more.
Excuse me while I go back to work after receiving this shocking news.
An alternative energy bubble and collapse and crisis is the only way capitalism knows to advance from one technology to another.
A stable transition of investment followed smoothly by non-destructive adoption of cleaner energy technologies would be possible in a managed economy, but for capital to de-value it's old investments and re-value their replacements would involve huge losses for today's wealthy class. The cataclysm of a bubble makes it possible for the rich to leap from one to the other in the confusion, and to pretend that their losses are due to natural disaster. Making the capitalists entitled to be restored to their former position as any other disaster victim.
Bubbles are not bad. I would rather have 10,000 tech, real estate, etc. bubbles than even one Stalinist 5 year plan.
Capitalism may yield many mistakes and produce many undesirable outcomes, but it's a whole lot better than having a politburo decide how many paper clips the world needs.
Actually, right now, coal shipments from Australia to China are still skyrocketing, so it's unlikely there will be an alternative energy bust anytime soon, especially with the oncoming accords.
For bubbles to burst something has to be dramatically overvalued. Are alternative energy technologies overvalued thusly? Show me numbers. Show me analysis. Don't show me handwaving.
Its no different then how things work in nature. A new niche opens up and you have a species boo mas they evolve to fill it. Competition ensues and the most fit survive. Genes that work best in the new environment become more numerous and those that aren't well don't.
Just like technology stocks before, smart people will make money and successful companies will survive and we all we be better of for it.
I agree with 8. Biofuels, I admit are not the panacea that some people think they are. But I've heard a lot of really good things about where solar energy is going. I admit that it is possible for solar energy will eventually be overvalued. But considering it's no where near that now, I'm not sure there's reason to say that it's a bubble that will be bursting anytime soon. Maybe in 15 years.
elenchos, you're a capitalist.
There are some bubbles off Washington's coast too (wind and wave):
@10 - not necessarily all biofuels.
My guess is algae and switchgrass biofuels might have more promise than more oversold corn ethanol biofuels.
There can be mini-bubbles. Not sector-wide but specific sub-tech specific.
Solar is probably reasonably valuated, given high future demand in China, Australia, US, Brazil, EU, etc. Same for wind.
Actually if you take a look at a number of alternative energy funds you'll notice that currently they aren't increasing. It isn't even a boom, so how can it be a bubble?
Charles, this story broke yesterday on the Rachel Maddow show (on AM1090 in Seattle). She did a lengthy interview with the author. Maybe you heard it?
Exactly. People keep equating bubbles with booms. Bubbles are an over inflation of something that probably has value on its own. A boom is simply a natural part of the economic cycle. Unless green businesses are promising something they can't deliver, I don't see how investment into green technologies qualifies as a bubble.
This story didn't 'break' yesterday, it hasn't 'broken' at all, because it's not a story. It's a piece of standard-fare Harpers speculation, and almost completely unlikely to come to fruition. This means, sadly, that all you protest kids who read the Stranger for its "economic commentary" are likely going to end up scuttling about Pine Street in filthy, ragged corduroys cadging taco remnants and wheedling worthless coins no later than, say, 2012.
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The founder of modern conservatism is needed now more than ever
Benjamin Disraeli's remarkable political career.
Decades before Herzl, Benjamin Disraeli wrote a novel that grappled with Zionism
In 1843, British novelist Grace Aguilar was a household name on both sides of the Atlantic. So how come we've never heard of her?


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Unless the ingredients listed are all grown NON GMO and chicken is raised organic and free range, this recipe is very bad for you. It also suggested tilapia instead of chicken and it's been proven that fish is the absolute worse fish you can eat. Salt, too ... should be completely eliminated from all diets.
Chicken Piccata with Pasta & Mushrooms
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Our chicken piccata, served over whole-wheat pasta, has a rich lemon-caper sauce that's made with extra-virgin olive oil and just a touch of butter for flavor. If you like, you can use a mild fish like tilapia or even shrimp instead of chicken breast.
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This was such a tasty and easy dish to make! I had read it was a little bland, so I added a heaping 1/4 cup of freshly grated Parmesan cheese and crushed red pepper to the sauce. I also rinsed the capers before adding them to cut down on the briney taste. It came out great!
Author needs to look up the definition of Piccata. It means SPICY! Nothing in this recipe suggest that. It is not a bad dish; however, it is not being sold the right way.
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Piccata is a method of
Piccata is a method of preparing food: meat is sliced, coated, sautéed and served in a sauce.
Yeah Piccata isNOT spicy, it
Yeah Piccata isNOT spicy, it actually is sliced, coated, sautéed and served in a sauce.
Hubby loved this and asked me to keep the recipe so I could make it again. He loves calamari and is anxious to try this sauce with it, but enjoyed the chicken tremendously! I'm not much of a chef but this made me look like one!


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Three thousand people remain evacuated from their homes in Colorado Springs.
Most are desperate to return. A group of frustrated evacuees confronted fire officials at Sunday's press conference, pleading to hear word on when their neighborhoods would be reopened.
But fire crews stress that though the worst of the fire seems to be over, there is still a lot of work to do before the evacuated areas are safe.
Firefighters tell 11 News that although there aren't any active fires burning in the evacuated areas, there is still high fire potential, and they have had some close calls. Even the homes that were lost in the fire are still cause for concern for fire crews. Some of them may still be smoldering with the ability to start new fires within neighborhoods.
Firefighters are working hard to patrol the evacuated area and take care of any areas that may still present dangers.
This is not the only reason why people are still evacuated, but it is a big concern.
Fire officials are optimistic, however, that the remaining evacuations could be lifted soon--possibly as early as Monday.


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We happened accross the wine tasting in Radda in chianti last year in may/jjune and it was one of the highlights of our holiday. We would like to do it this year but need to know the dates. Does any one know when it will be in 2013?
Radda nel Bicchiere is usually the first Saturday and Sunday of June, and these sagras usually take place around the same time each year. However, they not usually officially publicised until a couple of weeks beforehand when the local Pro Loco (the group invariably responsible for the organisation) has rounded up all the participants / sponsors and got their commitment. A growing number of festas now have Facebook pages so either Google the Radda Pro Loco or check them out on Facebook but probably not for a few months yet.
1 and 2 June 2013 http://www.radda-in-chianti.com/
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You may have thought about which friend or relative you would choose to make decisions for you if you become injured or sick. You may have even thought about what kinds of medical treatment you will want if you are terminally ill or in a coma. But have you written it down? A power of attorney document allows you to choose a trusted friend or relative to help you with your health care and/or finances. A health care directive tells your friends, family and medical providers what kinds of treatment you want if you cannot speak for yourself. Watch the video below that explains the types of Powers of Attorney and Directives in more detail. Then download the document to fill out the forms.


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Had been taking name brand Seasonique for over 5 years and it worked perfectly with no side effects, but I switched to Daysee almost a year ago after insurance stopped covering the name brand. First cycle was ok, but since I started the 2nd pack I have had spotting consistently around the 8th or 9th week of pills. I also have intermittent breast tenderness, and my period has changed from a regular ... Show Full Comment
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This was very effective as it reduced the heaviness and painfulness of my periods as well the obvious, birth control. The only downside was that I would get my period 1 week or even 2 weeks before it was due on the 3rd month. The last pack...my period lasted 3 to almost 4 weeks.
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I started taking camarese because I don't have too many options for birth control due to having high blood pressure, I was on the depo shot but it cause me to bleed daily and I could not take it!!!! I have been on it for 6 months the first 3 months I started spotting 3 weeks before I was supposed to get my scheduled period. I am on my yellow pills now and have not had a period or spotting as o ... Show Full Comment
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I just completed 2mths. I've experienced Depression, acne all of a sudden, and a vaginal infection. I started bleeding before the end of the 3rd month. I don't recommend this pill. I'm going back to Cryselle.
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Topic: wearable technology
Infographic: Wearable Tech at the Intersection of Function and Fashion
Exclusive Men's Health survey shows guys prioritize style
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From fitness trackers to smart watches, the trend in gear is tracking and customization. Once a status symbol for fitness-focused folks and tech geeks, wearable tech has become ubiquitous, as…
33% of Users Discard Their Wearables in Disappointment
But they're open to better gadgets in the future
By Toni McQuilken on Oct. 24, 2014 - 3:39 PM EDT
A new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers found that 33 percent of consumers who purchased a wearable item in the past year either do not use them any more or use them…
New Yahoo Tech Editor David Pogue Is Enjoying His Freedom
Talks click bait and Web commenting
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Photo: Alfred Maskeroni Specs Who David Pogue New gig Yahoo Tech editor, writer Old gig The New York Times tech columnist Age 51 You left The New York Times to join a Yahoo in progress. What…
Wearable Tech Is the New Social at SXSW
Attendees discuss the future of devices
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Wearable devices are giving SXSW Interactive veterans something new to talk about this year—thankfully. The tech-based conference has been dominated by conversations about social media and mobile in recent years,…
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Despite the tiny user base and aesthetic challenges
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Google Glass' role in advertising and content may be a bit out of focus—but initial use of the nascent technology may change that perception, as agencies and brands prepare for…
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We are all broken, beautiful, and beloved
For all those who heard me talking about our brokenness on the Morning Air Show on Relevant Radio this morning, here's the original column that sparked this as a retreat and workshop topic for me. We are all "broken, beautiful, and beloved."
If you look around my office prayer space or on my bedroom dresser, you'll notice one constant: broken conch and whelk shells everywhere. Small and blue-gray, large and sun-bleached, twisting, turning, spiraling in that gorgeous and mysterious way that seashells do. Although I have one perfect channeled whelk shell that I purchased in Cape May, N.J., years ago, my prized possessions are broken shells of every shape and size because, as far as I'm concerned, they are far more beautiful than the ones that are perfectly intact and so lovely on the outside. Read more


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When using Cart66 Lite I would like to set it so that when you click "Add To Cart" you stay on the same page and not be redirected to the "Cart" page but still update the widget cart.
Is there a quick and easy way to do this?
When using Cart66 Lite I would like to set it so that when you click "Add To Cart" you stay on the same page and not be redirected to the "Cart" page but still update the widget cart.
Is there a quick and easy way to do this?
This is what I am trying to do too. Did you get a solution.
You can take advantage of one of the hooks built into Cart66. Add a function to the functions.php file in your wordpress theme like this
function backToProductPage($product, $qty) {
add_action('cart66_after_add_to_cart', 'backToProductPage', null, 2);
Thank you for this information.
This is taking me to new depths in customization. I shall do some research in what this means and how this works.
One question I have already is what does the "null" and "2" do in the "add_action". As I said this is taking me into unknown territory so sorry if this seems to be a stupid question.
Thanks again.
Here is the function reference for add_action. The null parameter is in the place of priority which you can use to tweak when your function runs. Usually the default of 10 is fine. The last parameter means that your call back function should expect 2 parameters which, in this case, is an instance of the Cart66Product object that was added to the cart and the quantity of that product that was added.
Can the functionality be changed so it does not reload the page.
What we want to see happen is that there is a list of items with "add to cart" buttons on the page. The "cart" is in the side bar. When the "add to cart" button gets pressed for a product it updates the cart in the sidebar but does not reload the page as this solution is doing?
An ajax based add to cart feature is something we're working on and will provide the functionality you are describing but it's not available yet.
Any idea when we can expect to see that? We are so close to purchasing the development version of Cart66 but just have this and a a few tax/shipping issues to sort out.
i cannot even see the cart66 button on the wordpress editor page and the plugin is in installed and i have added products, any ideas?
What theme are you using? Some themes hide the Cart66 button. Also, you need to make sure that you are in the WYSIWYG portion of the editor, not the HTML side. If you are using any other editor besides the default TinyMCE editor, the button will also not show up.
In my case, the Lite version displays the button just fine while an upgrade to the Pro version removed it for some reason. I found out that having both Lite and Pro plugins activated at the same time solved this problem -- but that's not the way it's supposed to be.
Any suggestions?
That is a very unusual issue. I would recommend opening a support ticket through you Pro account so we (Cart66 Developers) can take a closer look.
Hi, Benjamin,
I've since noticed that the green button of Cart66 Lite has been replaced in Cart66 Pro by an icon up above the toolbars, where adding media functionality is, so the matter's moot!
Everyone Else,
I just want to note for the record something (wonderfully) weird that happened today...I was installing a bunch of plugins -- including Login Lockdown, Lockdown WP Admin, and Affiliate Link Cloaking -- and then noticed on my site that adding to the cart no longer redirects to the cart page!!!!
I don't have any payment methods set up still so there may yet be problems down the road with this unexpected boon but FWIW the sidebar cart widget updates successfully despite there being no redirect!!
Oops...spoke too soon: while the quantities do update, "view cart" and "checkout" on the widget do not work! Going to the regular cart page seems fine, though....
Back to the original subject:
Turns out that Cart66 actually does offer this very add-to-cart-but-stay-on-page-with-success-message functionality -- as a plugin for their plugin!
It's entirely unsupported but it does work on my eponymous site. It's a beta release and apparently only available to paying members of the "pro" version of their cart, but it does work! Check it out at http://aminkaozmun.com (my site's still under construction so please don't laugh too hard!)....
And for the record, this beta plugin for their plugin may be found on the members-only forums at https://cart66.zendesk.com/entries/20514067-add-to-cart-go-to-homepage-not-cart-page.
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For Sale: St. Barth's Estate, Former Home of a Wild and Crazy Guy
Want to sleep in Steve Martin's bed? Now you can, as long as you have a lot of cash to throw around.
St. Barth Properties Sotheby's International Realty has announced Villa Au Soleil as a listing for sale. Owned by comedian Steve Martin, Villa Au Soleil has garnered many accolades for its ambiance, spectacular pool, lush gardens and 270 degree views.
What will you get if you purchase The Jerk's old digs?
-A secluded Balinese-style gazebo set amidst lush tropical gardens; a true sanctuary with a lily pond.
-A state-of-the-art gourmet kitchen, a poolside barbeque shelter, a traditional dining room and multiple terraced dining areas; foodies and aspiring chefs are inspired to cook in and enjoy.
-A bird's eye view of St. Barth's notorious little runway with the small planes taking off and landing.
-Expansive outdoor living spaces that include a spectacular infinity pool, a multi-level sun deck and a patio.
-A private hot tub on the Master Bedroom's terrace.
If you'd rather rent before plunking down the asking price, that can be arranged as well. But act quickly, Tom Smyth, Co-owner and Real Estate contact for the US Market, who is handling the sale, reports that the interest from buyers is very high. For questions regarding the sale of Villa Au Soleil, Tom Smyth can be reached by phone at (508)-570-4481 or via email at email@example.com. Those interested in renting the villa should contact email@example.com.
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As it happened: Allianz Hurling League semi-finals
See how Sunday's Allianz Hurling League Division 1 semi-finals panned out at Semple Stadium in Thurles.
See how Sunday's Allianz Hurling League Division 1 semi-finals panned out at Semple Stadium in Thurles.
County senior Conor Loftus kicked a dramatic winner five minutes into injury-time to secure Mayo's place in the EirGrid All-Ireland U-21 football championship final.
Goals from senior star Peter Kelleher and Ryan Harkin were instrumental in Tullamore as Cork defeated Monaghan by 2-15 to 1-16 to join Mayo in the EirGrid All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship final on 30 April.
We tell you all need to know on a weekend that sees that start of the Allianz Hurling League and the semi-finals of the All-Ireland senior football club championship.
A fascinating weekend is in store, with Kilkenny and Galway set for battle in Sunday's All-Ireland senior hurling final and Dublin and Mayo meeting again to decide who'll face Kerry in this year's football decider.
RTÉ Sport will have live coverage of this Saturday's All Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-final replay between Dublin and Mayo across a variety of platforms.
Slaughtneil have requested the GAA change the date of their All-Ireland Senior Football Club Championship semi-final against Austin Stacks.
Kerry will this evening name their team for the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final with Donegal.
Goalkeeper Paul Durcan has played down Donegal's favourites tag ahead of Sunday's All-Ireland final, describing Kerry as the "kingpins" of the game.
Former Mayo football manager James Horan has again expressed his disappointment at the decision to stage the All-Ireland semi-final replay at the Gaelic Grounds and the lack of response from the Connacht champions' county board.
Crossmaglen Rangers battled back from a six-point deficit to book their place in the AIB All-Ireland Club Senior Football Championship final.
There was drama galore at the Gaelic Grounds on Saturday afternoon as St Brigid's from Roscommon qualified for their first ever AIB All-Ireland Club Senior Football Championship final.
The AIBA All Ireland Senior Club Football Championship quarter-final between Neasden Gaels and Crossmaglen Rangers has been rescheduled for 16 January in Ruislip.
Mike McCartney reports on Inch Rovers win over Carnacon in the Tesco All-Ireland Ladies senior club football championship final.
Sinead Ahern shot the lights out at Croke Park as Dublin finally captured the TG4 All-Ireland Ladies' Senior Football Championship.
Kerry captain Bernie Breen secured a replay for her team as the Kingdom and Tyrone fought out an epic TG4 All-Ireland Ladies Senior Football Championship semi-final stalemate at Ballymahon, Longford, on Saturday.
Read Tadhg Peavoy's text commentary on the second semi-final in the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship as Down narrowly defeat Kildare at Croke Park.
Tyrone blew the race for the TG4 All-Ireland Ladies senior football championship wide open at Banagher on Saturday as they claimed a famous quarter-final victory against All-Ireland champions Cork.
Leinster champions Dublin and Munster surprise packets Kerry advanced to the semi-finals of the TG4 All-Ireland Ladies Senior football Championship with hard-fought quarter-final victories at Banagher on Saturday.
Kerry and Clare completed the quarter-final line-up for the 2010 TG4 All-Ireland Ladies Senior Football Championship with comfortable Round 2 qualifier victories.


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Moody's Turns Negative on China Property Developers' Outlook
Moody's Investors Service revised its credit outlook for Chinese developers to negative from stable, citing a slowdown in home sales growth as liquidity weakens and inventories rise in the coming 12 months.
The outlook change is the first by the credit rating provider on China's property market since November 2012, it said in a statement today. Home sales growth will decelerate to 5 percent at most on a year-on-year basis over the next year, "materially lower" than 27 percent growth last year, it said.
"The liquidity of developers with relatively weak credit quality will be more vulnerable in 2014, and their refinancing risk will increase as banks became more selective in credit extension following recent defaults in China," Franco Leung, a Hong Kong-based analyst at Moody's, said in the statement.
After four years of government restrictions to cool the housing market, home sales and property construction are sliding and have become a drag on the country's economy, which recorded its slowest growth in six quarters in the first three months of the year. The pressure on Chinese developers was underscored by the collapse of a developer in a city south of Shanghai in March.
Developers with high inventory, weak sales ability and limited access funding will be more vulnerable, it said.
Credit Profiles
Developers including Glorious Property Holdings Ltd., controlled by billionaire Zhang Zhirong, Coastal Greenland Ltd. and Renhe Commercial Holdings Co., which develops underground shopping centers, will probably see further deterioration in credit profiles, Moody's said.
The central bank last week called on the biggest lenders to accelerate the granting of mortgages, indicating the government has policy levers available to support the industry when needed, Moody's said.
China's new-home prices rose in April in the fewest cities in a year and a half, while home sales fell 18 percent from March, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
Moody's would consider changing the industry outlook back to stable if the nation's home sales improve, inventories shrink and developers have stable access to bank lending over the coming six to 12 months, it said.
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I have a domain registered through Network Solutions, foo.com. I have it setup to point to a Blogger account I have setup. I followed the instructions at:
It loads http://www.foo.com fine.
But when I goto http://foo.com, it redirects to a subdomain that no longer exists (example: http://abc.foo.com). I think it's from an old DNS setting I had setup at 1&1 hosting a while ago. I no longer have access to my 1&1 account, so I can't view what DNS settings were in place.
How do I edit the DNS Settings at Network Solutions so that http://foo.com also points to where http://www.foo.com also points to?


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Explore displacement/time and velocity/time graphs with this mouse
motion sensor.
Use your skill and knowledge to place various scientific lengths in order of size. Can you judge the length of objects with sizes ranging from 1 Angstrom to 1 million km with no wrong attempts?
Can you fill in the mixed up numbers in this dilution calculation?
Can you break down this conversion process into logical steps?
Which dilutions can you make using 10ml pipettes and 100ml
measuring cylinders?
Which exact dilution ratios can you make using only 2 dilutions?
Practise your skills of proportional reasoning with this interactive haemocytometer.
It is possible to identify a particular card out of a pack of 15
with the use of some mathematical reasoning. What is this reasoning
and can it be applied to other numbers of cards?
Which dilutions can you make using only 10ml pipettes?
Use this animation to experiment with lotteries. Choose how many
balls to match, how many are in the carousel, and how many draws to
make at once.
Investigate how logic gates work in circuits.
Can you set the logic gates so that the number of bulbs which are on is the same as the number of switches which are on?
Use the computer to model an epidemic. Try out public health policies to control the spread of the epidemic, to minimise the number of sick days and deaths.
Have you seen this way of doing multiplication ?
How good are you at finding the formula for a number pattern ?
Practice your skills of measurement and estimation using this interactive measurement tool based around fascinating images from biology.
Can you put the 25 coloured tiles into the 5 x 5 square so that no column, no row and no diagonal line have tiles of the same colour in them?
Start with any number of counters in any number of piles. 2 players
take it in turns to remove any number of counters from a single
pile. The winner is the player to take the last counter.
If you continue the pattern, can you predict what each of the following areas will be? Try to explain your prediction.
Can you beat Piggy in this simple dice game? Can you figure out
Piggy's strategy, and is there a better one?
Find all the ways of placing the numbers 1 to 9 on a W shape, with
3 numbers on each leg, so that each set of 3 numbers has the same
To avoid losing think of another very well known game where the
patterns of play are similar.
A counter is placed in the bottom right hand corner of a grid. You
toss a coin and move the star according to the following rules: ...
What is the probability that you end up in the top left-hand. . . .
Charlie likes tablecloths that use as many colours as possible, but insists that his tablecloths have some symmetry. Can you work out how many colours he needs for different tablecloth designs?
Can you make a right-angled triangle on this peg-board by joining
up three points round the edge?
On the 3D grid a strange (and deadly) animal is lurking. Using the tracking system can you locate this creature as quickly as possible?
This is an interactivity in which you have to sort the steps in the
completion of the square into the correct order to prove the
formula for the solutions of quadratic equations.
There are nine teddies in Teddy Town - three red, three blue and three yellow. There are also nine houses, three of each colour. Can you put them on the map of Teddy Town according to the rules?
Use Excel to explore multiplication of fractions.
A right-angled isosceles triangle is rotated about the centre point
of a square. What can you say about the area of the part of the
square covered by the triangle as it rotates?
Can you give the coordinates of the vertices of the fifth point in
the patterm on this 3D grid?
Given the nets of 4 cubes with the faces coloured in 4 colours, build a tower so that on each vertical wall no colour is repeated, that is all 4 colours appear.
in how many ways can you place the numbers 1, 2, 3 … 9 in the
nine regions of the Olympic Emblem (5 overlapping circles) so that
the amount in each ring is the same?
The opposite vertices of a square have coordinates (a,b) and (c,d). What are the coordinates of the other vertices?
Can you beat the computer in the challenging strategy game?
A collection of our favourite pictorial problems, one for each day
of Advent.
Here is a chance to play a fractions version of the classic
Countdown Game.
Cellular is an animation that helps you make geometric sequences composed of square cells.
Balancing interactivity with springs and weights.
A tool for generating random integers.
This game challenges you to locate hidden triangles in The White
Box by firing rays and observing where the rays exit the Box.
Square It game for an adult and child. Can you come up with a way of always winning this game?
A simple spinner that is equally likely to land on Red or Black. Useful if tossing a coin, dropping it, and rummaging about on the floor have lost their appeal. Needs a modern browser; if IE then at. . . .
The classic vector racing game brought to a screen near you.
This resource contains interactive problems to support work on
number sequences at Key Stage 4.
A metal puzzle which led to some mathematical questions.
There are thirteen axes of rotational symmetry of a unit cube. Describe them all. What is the average length of the parts of the axes of symmetry which lie inside the cube?
Place a red counter in the top left corner of a 4x4 array, which is
covered by 14 other smaller counters, leaving a gap in the bottom
right hand corner (HOME). What is the smallest number of moves. . . .
Ask a friend to choose a number between 1 and 63. By identifying which of the six cards contains the number they are thinking of it is easy to tell them what the number is.


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Today is 2/4/16 or 4/2/16, depending on where you live and how you write dates. Either way, it's a great day because 24=16 and 42=16. There aren't many days like that (although we are treated to two this year), so it's worth taking a moment to celebrate.
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Have a power-ful dayFebruary 4, 2016
How many grams in an ounce?March 9, 2015
Converting between units can be hard, as seen before (and before and before). Fortunately, food containers often include both English units and Metric units. Unfortunately, those two don't always match. Take, for example, Producers Sour Cream. Their 32 oz container says it has 907 grams, which is about what you'd expect. The 16-ounce container has half has many. Not half of 907, but half of that again: in bold defiance of the laws of physics, it sports a mere 226 grams.
This mistake has apparently gone on for years. What's equally strange is that the various nutrition sites that include information about this product also say 16 oz (226g) without comment. Because, as stated above, units are hard.
Thanks to Philip Bailey for bringing this to our attention! And speaking of Math Mistakes, as I was, several of the mistakes listed in this very blog are published in the PRIMUS article "Math Mistakes that Make the News" by Yours Truly, which can be downloaded for free during the month of March (2015).
Math Mistake…tell your (two) friendsSeptember 17, 2014
Back in the 80s, there was a commercial for Faberge Organic Shampoo. And even if the shampoo doesn't sound familiar, you might have heard of the ad ("…and they tell two friends…")
Hey, it's exponential functions! 1 friend tells 2 friends, those 2 friends tell 4 friends, those 4 friends tell 9 friends, those…wait, 9? Where did that come from? And then those 9(?) friends tell 16 people. So it almost works, except that after the photo of 2 people they decided to switch to perfect squares.
Fortunately, a later ad brings the whole thing to a halt before reaching 9:
Good job Faberge people – you skipped the 9! Of course, this one went straight from 1, 2, 4 to 16 before diving headlong into a grid of 24 people, so I'm not sure it was much of a mathematical improvement.
Threesixty360…your source for commenting on 30 year old math mistakes that have already been well documented.
Long lines on EarthSeptember 15, 2014
In spherical geometry, the shortest-length curve between two points on the surface of the sphere turns out to be part of a Great Circle – an equator-line circle that cuts the sphere in half. So lines are circles, which is fun to share with philosophers. (Note – taxicab geometry provides that same amusement, where circles are squares.)
So a natural question, where "natural" means I never actually thought of it but wish I had, is What is the longest line along the surface of the earth that goes entirely through water? This would be the longest possible straight-line sailing distance, if you ignored all the physical aspects of sailing like wind and water currents. Fortunately, before I even thought of the question, someone had answered it. Behold!
This gif appears to be from a youtube video by Patrick Anderson of 2012 (here) which has the advantage of being a little slower.
So that raises the question of the longest straight-line distance through land. And here's a guess at it: http://i.imgur.com/nbNfl.jpg and then another one https://sites.google.com/site/guybruneau/fun-stuff/longest-distance-on-land, although that second one it doesn't quite look like part of a Great Circle so possibly the projection imposed a different geometry. Or possibly I have trouble visualizing projections of Great Circles, which is also possible because they are weird. (The cool kind of weird, of course.)
Thanks CJ for sending me that gif, although now that I'm finding myself asking questions like "What line passes through the most countries?" I can tell that it's going to keep me from my grading for longer than it should.
Decimal Mistake in the NewsJuly 23, 2014
Decimal points are small, and so easy to lose. And it appears that many of them were lost on FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) forms, which is NOT a place that you would want incorrect data. According to an official document from July 18, people filling out the form were supposed to round monetary values to the nearest dollar, rather than using exact dollar-and-cents amounts. But some people put down cents anyway, and the computer didn't alert them, or tell them there was a problem. No, it slyly accepted the amounts, and then threw all the decimal points in the trash, so [as the official memo said], and income that had been recorded as $5000.19 was suddenly interpreted as $500019, which is one heck of a sweet income and probably enough to disqualify you from most financial aid.
This didn't happen with just a couple people, either – The Wire says that 200,000 people are likely to be affected. And because it's more than just a couple, schools have to look at all those applications, every single one, to catch any errors. Those errors might be that people didn't get aid who should, which is a bummer, but it could also mean that people got too much money. That doesn't sound as bad initially, but the July 18 memo says, " If such aid has already been disbursed the institution may need to change awards and return (or have the student return) any overawarded funds." I can't imagine that it will go over all that well for a school to tell someone to give back money that was promised, so I suspect this messiness will last a while.
Hat tip to Yousuf for pointing out this article!
What is an urn?June 25, 2014
I can think of exactly two times when the word urn is used: as a container for someone's ashes, and as a container for colored balls. Since I've never physically seen an urn that has balls in it, it makes me wonder – when did that become such a standard in probability problems? Why are the balls in an urn in the first place?
When I asked that very question, TwoPi mentioned "surmounted" as another example of an English word that seems to be used exclusively in one context: to describe Norman Windows (a window in the shape of a rectangle surmounted by a semicircle). "surmountable" is more common, and "insurmountable" even more so, so I suppose "surmounted" does actually appear in a related context (as in "that difficulty has been surmounted"), but it's still relatively unusual. I suspect that there are other words, English words as opposed to mathematical terms, that just don't show up very often outside of the exercises in a text.
Here is a Norman Window, by the way, from Notre-Dame d'Étretat in Étretat, France.
Gene sharing mathJune 22, 2014
The other day I found myself wondering what proportion of genes cousins would expect to share compared to biological siblings. This took more time to figure out than I would have expected, in part because I knew that siblings who share two parents have 1/2 their genes in common on average, so I thought cousins sharing two grandparents might have a quarter. They don't, though – it's half that. In reasoning it out, it turned out to be easiest to think of moving up the biological family tree to a common ancestor, which led to one general formula and a few specific cases:
The Generalization:
Given two people A and B, find their closest common ancestor C. If there are n generations from A to C and m generations from B to C, then the expected proportion of shared genes is (½)n+m. If there are two closest common ancestors (for example, both parents) then this number would double.
In the case of a parent and child, for example, there is 1 generation from the child to the parent (the common ancestor) and 0 from the parent to itself, so the proportion of shared genes would be (½)1, or just ½. Cousins would each be 2 generations from common grandparents, leading to (½)4, or 1/16, for cousins with one grandparent in common (sometimes called half cousins) and twice that for cousins with two grandparents in common (sometimes called full cousins). Double cousins — that is, people who are cousins on both sides of the family tree (for example, cousins whose mothers are sisters and whose fathers are brothers) — would still have grandparents as the closest common ancestor, but now it would be up to four common grandparents instead of just one or two: the expected proportion of shared genes between cousins with four common grandparents would be 4·(½)4, or just ¼. Likewise, an aunt and nephew with two parents/grandparents in common would be 1 and 2 generations respectively from this pair of common ancestors, so the expected proportion of shared genes would be 2·(½)3, also ¼.
Special Case 1: great-great-…-great grandparents
In this case the older relative is the common ancestor, so if "g" is the number of "great"s then the proportion of shared genes is (½)g+2. The additional 2 in the exponent is because the number of "great"s counts the generations after grandparents, who are already 2 generations away from their grandchildren. This is the only case where the proportion is exact: in all the others, it's only an expected proportion because siblings could have anywhere from no overlap of genes to complete overlap of genes from each common parent.
Special Case 2: great-great-…-great aunts and uncles
In this case the older relative's parent(s) are the common ancestor. With a great-uncle and great-niece, for example, the great-uncle's parent(s) are the great-grandparent(s) of the great-nephew. This means that there is 1 generation from the great-uncle to his parent(s), but 3 from the great-niece to that common ancestor, with each additional "great" adding another generation. If "g" is the number of "great"s, then the expected proportion of shared genes would be (½)g+3 if there is one parent in common, and (½)g+2 if there are two. (I personally find it interesting that you can expect to share the same proportion of genes with a sibling who shares both parents as you do with either of the individual parents, the same proportion with an aunt or uncle who shares both grandparents as you do with either of the individual grandparents, and the same proportion with a great-great-…-great aunt/uncle who shares both great-great-…-great grandparents as you do with either of those great-great-…-great grandparents themselves.)
One clarification: great-aunt is the term I grew up with, but in looking around I just discovered that "grand-aunt" may be the technically correct term, since that person is in the same generation as a grandparent; likewise, the sister of a great-grandparent would be a great-grand-aunt. This appeals to me aesthetically. If you were to use these terms, then you'd have one fewer "great" in describing the relationship, and you'd need to add 1 to the exponent in the formulas above.
Special Case 3: second cousins once removed (and the like)
Cousins share at least one grandparent, second cousins share at least one great-grandparent, and xth cousins share at least one great(x-1) grandparents. This means that xth cousins are each (x+1) generation removed from the common ancestor(s), and would expect to share (½)2x+2 of their genes if there is one common relative and (½)2x+1 if there are two. Each removal refers to one of the people being one more generation removed from any common ancestors, and so increases the power of ½ by 1. This means that xth cousins who are y-times removed would expect to share (½)2x+y+2 of their genes if there is one common relative and (½)2x+y+1 if there are two. Second cousins once removed would share either (½)7 or (½)6 of their genes, while first cousins twice removed would share (½)6 or (½)5.
For those who like the visual, there is a handy little chart below, which appears to be in the public domain on Wikipedia. It does make some assumptions, however – namely, that siblings, cousins, aunts and nieces, etc. have exactly two closest relatives in common (both parents, two grandparents, etc.).
Soccer MathJune 19, 2014
The World Cup is happening! It's inspiring to watch excellent soccer players…inspiring us to write about some excellent math. We'll venture out on the field with a few soccer and math tidbits.
- The soccer ball that I think of as typical – in other words, the one that I remember from Days of Yore – is an Archimedian solid, made from 20 regular hexagons and 12 regular pentagons. Specifically, it's a truncated icosahedron because it can be built from lopping the corners off of a regular icosahedron. It's also a buckminsterfullerene, although that's only the formal name: friends can call it a buckyball. The buckyball was Red Hot News in 1985, because it was a new way of putting Carbon atoms together. Scientists Harold W. Kroto, Robert F. Curl, and Richard E. Smalley* named it after architect R. Buckminster Fuller*, whose geodesic domes had inspired them to try and create such a carbon cluster. But this soccerball-shaped soccerball doesn't limit itself to Ancient Greeks and Modern Scientists, oh no. It also dabbles in the arts, as shown in this photo below from Labor Park in Dalien, China.
- Soccer balls aren't the only thing math-related in soccer: there's also the number of people on a team. Each team has 23 players, which means that on any team there is a 50% chance that two people on that team share a birthday. With 32 teams playing in the world cup, you'd expect about half of them to have birthday-sharing teammates, and in fact, as the BBC pointed out earlier this week, exactly 16 of the 32 teams do. For example, tomorrow (June 20) six people have birthdays, including two (Asmir Begovic and Sead Kolasinac) on the team from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Now oddly enough, even though you'd expect half the teams to have teammates sharing a birthday, the fact that it's exactly half is actually rather strange: with a 50% chance of two teammates getting to share cake, the probability that exactly 16 of the 32 teams satisfy that is only 14% – it's just that at that point it's equally likely to be more or fewer days. Ironically, it's rather unexpected to actually hit the expected value.
- One final math fact about the World Cup: one of the referees for yesterday's match between Chile and Spain is actually a former high school math teacher! Not all that former, either: Mark Geiger taught in New Jersey alongside his brother, winning the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching, but eighteen months ago he left teaching in order to referee full-time, hoping for a shot at the World Cup. Not a bad gig, and he always has those math skills to fall back on if he finds he misses teaching.
*Whenever I type "[Occupation] [Person's Name]" I get the urge to add "renowned" and then go read Da Vinci Code again.
The photo of the sculpture is by Uwe Aranas, Creative Commons License. And if you didn't follow the link to the BBC article, "The Birthday Paradox ath the World Cup" by James Fletcher, it's worth a read – it has a lot more detail about the birthday paradox and sports.
Happy Star Wars Day!May 4, 2013
Godzilla is celebrating Star Wars Day with a Severed Wampa Arm Cake (recipe from justJenn):
Ewwww — that looks kind of gross. Godzilla is such a monster. Here's a less bloody angle:
May the Fourth be with you!
Kid Snippets Math ClassMay 3, 2013
Our 9-year old recently introduced us to Kid Snippets, a series of short videos feature adults acting out children's conversations. (The children are given a scenario and "act" it out vocally; the adults then do the actual acting to the children's dialogue.) These are now sweeping through the department, since watching funny videos is way more fun than studying for math tests. It's also possible that I've watched more than a few of these for a break myself, even when no kids were around.
Third Derivatives in the News (Again)March 29, 2013
The news is no stranger to third derivatives, although it doesn't sneak in very often – we've mentioned before the October 1996 issue of the Notices of the AMS in which Hugo Rossi wrote, "In the fall of 1972 President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a sitting president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection."
Well, just like a blog that doesn't post for so long that you figure it's basically dead, and then all of a sudden out of nowhere WHOA there's a new post (Hi everybody!), the third derivative made a new appearance recently. On the appropriately palindromic- (in the US) date of March 10, 2013, Paul Krugman wrote in the Opinion pages of the New York Times:
People still talk as if the deficit were exploding, as if the United States budget were on an unsustainable path; in fact, the deficit is falling more rapidly than it has for generations, it is already down to sustainable levels, and it is too small given the state of the economy.
Did you catch that? The line about the deficit falling more rapidly than it has been? Let's take a closer look:
Assume that the National Debt at year t is the original function: D(t). This is positive, since we have debt.
Then the Deficit is the derivative, D'(t). It's also positive, because the National Debt is increasing.
If the Deficit is falling, that means that the Deficit is a decreasing function, so the derivative of D'(t) – that is, D"(t) – is negative. That would mean the Debt is increasing, but concave down.
But the quote said the Deficit is falling more rapidly than is has been: the derivative of the Deficit is getting more negative, so to speak. In other words, the Deficit itself is decreasing and concave down, which means that D"'(t) is negative.
And so we have a third derivative! Welcome back old friend!
Wedding Cake WINSeptember 19, 2012
A few days ago while in a yarn shop I ran into one of our alumni from a few years ago. Seeing her was fantastic, but the icing on the cake (Sorry. Sort of.) was that she had gotten married last summer to a biochem major, and they designed their own wedding cake. She sent me a couple photos the next day of what is perhaps the coolest wedding cake I've ever seen:
Hey, I can answer that question! I'm not as sure about the next one, though.
Congratulations (and Happy Anniversary!) to Emily and Glen — I can think of no better way to start a marriage.
Props to the photographer, Hilary Argentieri, for taking such clear picture!
Oddly, this isn't even our first math wedding post (see this mathy proposal) although it's the very first one involving cake.
Edited 9/19 to add: Apparently this came from xkcd — I think that makes me like it all the more.
Negative ZeroMarch 18, 2012
Calculus RhapsodyMarch 16, 2012
While the Muppet version of Bohemian Rhapsody is still my favorite, this might be a close runner up: