[0808.3310] Inferring basic parameters of the geodynamo from sequences of polarity reversals The asymmetric time dependence and various statistical properties of polarity reversals of the Earth's magnetic field are utilized to infer some of the most essential parameters of the geodynamo, among them the effective (turbulent) magnetic diffusivity, the degree of supercriticality, and the relative [...]

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[0808.3278] Thump, ring: the sound of a bouncing ball Analysis of a simplified model basketball.

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[0808.2624] Mark J Reid, Is there a Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way? "This review outlines the observations that now provide an overwhelming scientific case that the center of our Milky Way Galaxy harbors a supermassive black hole."

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Mathematics and Computation ” Intuitionistic mathematics for physics

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Package List – Life with Solaris Life with Solaris has begun publishing some popular multimedia formats using image packaging. Current packages include BMPx, Goggles/Ogle, VLC, and Xine.

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Open Problem Garden "Welcome to the Open Problem Garden, a collection of unsolved problems in mathematics."

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Life is so good, it gets better every day » Blog Archive » Playing with IPS and SFE Glynn works through how to build a "spec files extra" (SFE) package and convert it for publication in a pkg(5) repository.

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