User: Aquila della Notte

SMSG

On: US Students Struggle With Understanding of the 'Equal' Sign

SMSG, or Some Math Some Garbage, as we clever 7th graders used to call it back in the day.

Re:Um..no

On: James Lovelock Suggests Suspending Democracy To Save the World

Beliefs make you blind to anything which disagrees with your belief.

That is your belief.

Re:what is a cubic micrometer

On: Heat Engines Shrunk By Seven Orders of Magnitude

Not sure. I do know it takes 4000 holes to fill the Albert Hall. Does that help?

Re:The Traffic Cone

On: For GUIs, Just the Right Degree of Realism

Aaah, it's a traffic cone! I've used VLC for years and had the icon on my desktop, but until this moment I never realized the icon is a traffic cone.