Archive for January, 2007

Poet Bios of the Day

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

Kevin Oberlin watches television in Cincinnati with his wife.
Nicole Walker divides her time amongst several places. You can find her in her car, her house, her office and occasionally at the grocery store.

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Journal Paper of the Day

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

Concetto Gianino, “Experimental analysis of the Italian coffee pot “moka””, in American Journal of Physics, Volume 75, Issue 1, January 2007, pp. 43-47.

Abstract
I describe an experiment involving the moka Italian coffee pot. The pot is an ingenious device for making coffee that uses the liquid-vapor equation of state of the water and Darcy’s law of [...]

How To Develop a Theory of Truth

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

Wittgenstein’s ideas concerning truth were rather generally adopted by the early Viennese Circle. The first to raise doubts, which soon developed into a very energetic opposition, was Dr. Neurath. The first who recognised the importance of Neurath’s ideas was Prof. Carnap. He joined some of his most important theses and gave them [...]