porges » Books http://porg.es/blog Sun, 06 May 2012 22:13:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Pearls Before Piglets http://porg.es/blog/pearls-before-piglets http://porg.es/blog/pearls-before-piglets#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 10:40:31 +0000 Porges http://porg.es/blog/?p=346 While Googling my way through the interwebs, I came across the 2008 Western Australian Certificate of Education sample examination for Stage 2 Biological Sciences. It contains this diagram:

Diagram

If you’re wondering, the entire hierarchy is drawn from Umberto Eco‘s novel Baudolino.

]]> http://porg.es/blog/pearls-before-piglets/feed 0 Tomorrow, the world! http://porg.es/blog/tomorrow-the-world http://porg.es/blog/tomorrow-the-world#comments Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:28:40 +0000 Porges http://porg.es/blog/tomorrow-the-world I just read how the Cauchy-Riemann equations can be derived from a (complex 1-manifold/real 2-manifold/Riemann surface), and I think I understood it. Yay!

]]> http://porg.es/blog/tomorrow-the-world/feed 0 An Island to Oneself http://porg.es/blog/an-island-to-oneself http://porg.es/blog/an-island-to-oneself#comments Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:13:25 +0000 Porges http://porges.name/blog/an-island-to-oneself I recently found out that the copyright on this book expired in 2001. Secondly, I found a site that had all the text on it. Since I’ve liked this book since I was a child, I decided to reformat it and share it on my site. You can find it here: An Island to Oneself.

An Island To Oneself (subtitled The Story of Six Years on a Desert Island) is—as you may have guessed—the story of a man (Tom Neale, who is, incidentally, a New Zealander) who lives for 6 years on a deserted island in the middle of the Pacific. I’ve taken the original text and cleaned it up a bit for easy viewing…

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