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Pondering beer

tags: history, Ommegang, Rare Vos, beer
comment posted by slojo on 2004 Nov 16th at 15:02, 0 comments
I actually wrote a lot more, but I guess those parts were not as interesting=) I think my favorite was the rare voss. I really enjoyed Michel and Laurents stories about the history behind the beer, the process of making it, and various anecdotes of events that occur in their day to day lives of the business of beer.
parent post: Belgian Beer Tasting
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A 19th-Century Mathematician Finally Proves Himself

tags: Difference Engine, Babbage, history, computers, mathematics
article posted by Brian on 2009 Dec 10th at 9:24, 0 comments
Charles Babbage

NPR has a good story on Charles Babbage and the mathematical engines he never saw built. A 19th-Century Mathematician Finally Proves Himself