Previously the only souce of Info we had when a cyclone was approaching was the Mauritius Meteorological services but now things have changed, we don’t need to have our ears glued to the radio; and we have the Internet.
Trajectories
Here’s a list of sites providing info, tracking and trajectory simulation:
Joint Typhoon Warning Center Products [...]
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Most Computer Science students at some point meet up with the Fibonacci Sequence - an interesting application of recursion. Yet there’s more to fibonacci than just 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, …
In 1170 AD, in Italy, was born Leonardo of Pisa, son of Bonaccio. Leonardo grew to be a fine mathematician and is [...]
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Beings from the spirit world are everpresent in Anime (and Manga). Miyazaki’s movies masterpieces (I haven’t seen a bad one to date) like Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away strongly feature spirits.
In Princess Mononoke, it’s basically all about spirits: the movie begins with an attack on a village let by the boar God Nago. Ashitaka [...]
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Posted in Mauritius, tagged 11, 14, 17, 29, 32, 34, 35, 4, 40, 6, creole, language, mauritian creole, Mauritius, numbers on January 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Mauritian creole is on the way of becoming a full fledge language. For us Mauritians, it’s our mother tongue but until recently it lacked a proper dictionary - now we have quite a few but they seem to disagree among themselves on how to write the same word.
Anyway enough with introductions, let’s now tackle the [...]
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Well my mum seems quite convinced that she is. From her past observations whenever Packrette (that the name my mum gave to her) has been actively digging a nice cozy hole in the earth (her kennel or the porch are arguable not cozy enough) there has been a thunderstorm in the coming days and yesterday [...]
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United States
Mr Barack Obama, a black guy, could soon be making history in the US: he is the first black guy to have a reasonable chance of being elected as president of the United States.
In the US, blacks are about 15% of the population and whether he wins or not is immaterial for this post. [...]
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2008 is here and as usual the doom sayers astronomers are back ready to predict the end of the world with their wise predictions. Let’s have a look:
Le monde… vu par Neer Jyotish - 5 Plus Dimanche
- De nombreuses reformes sociales et politiques sont a prevoir. Elles ne seront pas toujours positives
- La haine religieuse [...]
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