When Google went public, its IPO announced a intention to raise $2,718,28,183. The transcendental number e is, of course, roughly 2.71828183….
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Snakes of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona
As we’re off to Denver shortly for a tour of the … what do you call the area … the Southwestern States? The Mountain States? Well, anyway, we’re probably going to be taking in bits of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona.
A couple of years ago two black bears ran right past us [...]
Epiphenomenalism
I saw the original of Caspar David Friedrich’s painting, Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer‘, (’The wanderer above the sea of fog’), or a painting very like it, several years ago, in a travelling exhibition in Edinburgh titled, ‘The Romantic Spirit in German Art’ (which I’d misread as, ‘The Romantic Shirt in German Art”).
This particular Romantic [...]
Rheumatoid Arthritis Rah Rah Rah
So, Friday the GP told me I did have rheumatoid arthritis after all … after a practice nurse told me over the phone my blood test had been negative for the rheumatoid factor (RhF) antibody. In fact I have a high RhF measure. My appointment with a consultant rheumatologist should be dropping through the letterbox [...]