Day 8

I really wanted to experiment with the quiz format a bit, but really not getting anywhere. Maybe not having an exam to do tomorrow would allow the creativity Gods to descend on me. But as things go we'll have to go on with the present routine for at least two more days. So I never told you where I wanted you to send your answers. As a comment to my blog is too public..... My! Are'nt we competitive today?:) Send it in to zogdelabog@gmail.com. Okay so all set? Here we go 1. I have 37 gears of which 30 survive Lone survivor of an ancient wreck I have been named the first mechanical computer. 2. "Like the silicon chips of more recent years, the Feynman diagram was bringing computation to the masses." This quote is a reference to the thinly veiled competition between to intellectual giants of our age. If I asked you who they were, I would be too kind. Instead I ask you what their disagreement was about. 3. The treatise that first established the difference between chemistry and alchemy is__________ 4. "Wigner's friend" and "Quantum suicide" are variants of which popular thought experiment? 5."Conspicuous Consumption" and "Conspicuous leisure" were first introduced in this famous book. Name it. This book is also considered the first critique of _______ 6. "In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin, and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose." So any guesses as to whose speech this was a part of? 7. The above instrument (pictured) is based on what physical principle? 8. Given credit for a range of advances from MRIs and CT Scans to the Information revolution, he was also a two time swedish academy award winner. Who is he? And you're a ninny if you don't know the answer. :P 9. This scientist was home schooled, did not have the money to persue a doctorate and hence worked as a lab technician for many years, and ;) with his equally bralliant wife tried to understand the science behind seances (psychical phenomena). Name him. 10. Name the first economic treatise ever written. Also name the author. Today's theme is again obvious. But I would suggest reworking after you do all the quizzes to get a better fit.