SKIRMISHER

Learn to juggle the instructional way!

Look at the dancer at the left. What do you see? Is she turning clockwise or counter-clockwise? You just can’t help but love these optical illusions.
If you see her turning clockwise (right) then your left side of the brain is doing most of the work, which means you are more of a logic/analyzing person.
If you [...]

Dr George Gheverghese Joseph from The University of Manchester says the ‘Kerala School’ identified the ‘infinite series’- one of the basic components of calculus - in about 1350.
The discovery is currently - and wrongly - attributed in books to Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibnitz at the end of the seventeenth centuries.
The team from the [...]

Play with your logic… before your logic plays you.

How do I love thee? Let me fuck the ways…
via SICKOPATH

And I thought only the English language is capable of gibberish genius.
You thought so, too?
Well, click here and find out for yourselves what the heck’s gyring and gimbling in my mind right now.
via El Cubo Negro

Russian chess champion Vladimir Kramnik got a beating from chess computer Deep Fritz in their six-game encounter. Now, Vladimir’s biggest problem these days is how exactly can he sleep at night. Counting a thousand jumping Deep Fritzes over a fence, probably.
The 31-year-old Kramnik, who received $US500,000 ($634,800) for playing the mighty machine, could have walked [...]

As I write this, the Philippines is being battered by typhoon Reming. And my skin is feverishly excited to once more welcome the mighty winds! Yes, on stormy occasions, my electrolytes are on a surge (wooopeee! wooopeee!).
But I have to make sense once in a while. So as a sign of respect for this pre-Christmas typhoon, here I go…
Although a typhoon ain’t [...]