March 24, 2004


How high can high heels go? The answer, alas, is a (not very) complicated mathematical expression that doesn't render well in HTML.

Laura Grant, a physicist from Liverpool University welcomes the Institute's new formula commenting, "many of my physicist colleagues have no trouble understanding quantum mechanics but can't figure out how women can wear high heels. Now I can explain to them how I minimise the probability of tripping up".
Note that only in the United States among non-ass-backwards countries are people ever surprised to note that women can be physicists, too. Math is hard! (scroll to 1994 on that last link.)
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I'm saving off copies of the Times' transcript of the September 11th commission hearings so that when someone asks about the text of the testimony, you can check it yourself. It'll be nice to have when the transcript vanishes behind the paywall in a week. It's also easier than trying to figure out what's going on by listening to NPR, which is in the middle of one of the most poorly-timed pledge drives of all time, or watching TV, which is itself an informationless pledge drive.
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