Mike on September 3rd, 2010

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Mike on September 1st, 2010

For some odd reason, for the past few years I’ve been thinking about the double slit experiment. This video does a good job of explaining it. Watch it all the way to the end. It is VERY interesting. God has created a very intriguing and complex world.

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Mike on August 7th, 2010

Here is another post that has nothing to do with Russia. But I think it’s funny. What do cats think when they first see a treadmill? See companion posts here and here.

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Mike on July 28th, 2010

Here’s something funny I saw today on the web: the Salmon Celebration – This happened in Iceland at the weekend, during a match between Stjarnan and Fylkir (the former were responsible for the celebration, after Johann Laxdal scored).

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Mike on July 16th, 2010

A few uses of trademarks in Russia –

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Mike on May 2nd, 2010

Here are some haunting and beautiful pictures of old estate houses in Russia. Many are far in the country where very few people now go. What treasures they are –

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Mike on April 28th, 2010

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Mike on April 16th, 2010

A companion to a previous post, I don’t know the specifics of this other than some fishermen parked on the ice. Well, the nice warm car melts the ice, and they return to find this:

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Mike on April 12th, 2010

Here is something interesting. I’ve scheduled it to post as Olga and I are flying from Russia to the US. This video shows air traffic around the world for 24 hours. Courtesy: Zurich School of Applied Science. The yellow dots represent large body airplanes in the sky during a 24 hour period. You can the [...]

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Mike on April 10th, 2010

Interfax Reports: Fans greeted each other on Easter at a Sunday evening soccer match at Moscow Lokomotiv stadium. At the beginning of the second half of the match thousands of fans of Dynamo team started chanting “Christ is Risen!”, an Interfax correspondent reports. Thousands of fans of Lokomotiv teeam on the opposite side of the [...]

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