“Se oli teknoa”, It Was Techno.

As I’m currently in the process of moving from my apartment, which involves throwing away old things and packing, sometimes I find interesting things from the past. The following clip about the satanic aspects of techno music comes from a newspaper in 1995.
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How Does One Boil an Egg?

There is a joke where a farmer asks a physicist to come up with ways to improve the milk yield of the farmer’s cows. After the physicist has analyzed the problem, he begins his presentation by stating: “First, assume a spherical cow of uniform density…”

So, how does one boil an egg? First, treat the egg as a spherical homogeneous object of mass M and initial temperature Tegg

Hummmmmmus.

Recently I visited London on a work trip. I visited a pub with my colleagues, and as we were walking back to the hotel near Holborn, we passed by a small sign from which I made out the word “hummus”. Like a Pavlov’s dog, my curiosity (and appetite) was immediately aroused.
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