"Live at Blues Alley" is a well-known live jazz album by the American jazz singer Eva Cassidy, released posthumously in 1996. The album was recorded in 1996 at Blues Alley, a jazz club in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. It features Cassidy's renditions of various songs, showcasing her distinctive vocal style and emotional depth. The album includes a mix of jazz standards, folk songs, and pop covers, and it highlights Cassidy's ability to blend different musical genres.
The NT Gundam Cover likely refers to the mobile suit from the "Mobile Suit Gundam: Narrative" movie, which is part of the Gundam franchise. The NT Gundam is a new mobile suit introduced in this film, characterized by its unique design and features that set it apart from other Gundam models.
Otto Laporte is not widely recognized in mainstream contexts, so it's possible that you might be referring to something specific or lesser-known. In some contexts, "Laporte" can refer to the American mathematician and statistician Otto Laporte, who may have contributions in fields such as mathematics or statistics. However, additional context would help clarify what or whom you are specifically referring to with "Otto Laporte.
Peter Shawhan is a physicist known for his work in gravitational wave astronomy and astrophysics. He has been involved with significant research relating to the detection and analysis of gravitational waves, which are ripples in spacetime caused by massive celestial events such as the merging of black holes or neutron stars. Shawhan has contributed to various scientific publications and has been affiliated with institutions like the University of Maryland.
As of my last knowledge update in October 2021, Stephen Robert Cotanch does not appear to be a widely recognized public figure or topic. It’s possible that he is a private individual or a less prominent person who has not garnered significant media attention.
Kurt Symanzik was a German physicist known for his contributions to theoretical physics, particularly in the field of quantum field theory and the foundations of quantum mechanics. He is perhaps best recognized for his work on the foundations of quantum field theory and renormalization. Symanzik was part of a group of physicists who sought to address some of the theoretical challenges in understanding particle physics and the behavior of fields at different energy scales.
Jan Korringa is a Dutch physicist known for his contributions to the field of condensed matter physics, particularly in the study of magnetic materials and quantum phenomena. His research often involves theoretical and computational modeling of physical systems.
PhD Comics by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Each comic page has an "Emergency Button" below it, which redirects to a mock PDF formatted as a research paper, so you can quickly pretend to be working. Epic.
Figure 1.
The evolution of intellectual freedom by PhD Comics (2011)
Source.
Meta breaking glitch by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
A meta breaking glitch of a video game is a glitch that when discovered significantly breaks the meta.
In non-video game-game, it does sometimes happen that a meta is broken as well, but these events tend to be rarer and less dramatic than meta-breaking due to computer program glitches.
In PvP games, those glitches are generally forbidden by existing rules, and quickly patched after discovered.
In speedrunning however, they are either incorporated in the existing strategy, or may lead to the creation of a new run category for particularly significant glitches.
Video 1.
The Controversial Olofboost by theScore esports (2018)
Source. Descries the boost used by CS:GO pro-team Fnatic during the DreamHack Winter 2014 quarterfinals.
Pirates (2005) by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
One of the first 1 million USD (zero artistic value) porn movie. And also a piece of shit! Hotter porn has been shot in kitchens around the world using iPhones.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220330011213im_/https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/2/Open/MTI%20Home%20Video/Pirates%20(2005)/_derived_jpg_q90_310x470_m0/Pirates2005-PosterArt.jpg
The most practical/precise volt standard.
The wiki page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephson_voltage_standard contains amazing schematics of the device, apparently made by the US Government.
Figure 1.
Schematic of a typical Josephson voltage standard chip
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Figure 2.
Sam Benz demonstrating the equipment required the voltage standard
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Video 1.
The evolution of voltage metrology to the latest generation of JVSs by Alain Rüfenacht
. Source. Talk given in 2023. The speaker is from NIST, and the talk was hosted by the BIPM. Fantastic talk.
Video 2.
Technical aspects of realizing the DC volt in the laboratory with a JVS by Stéphane Solve
. Source. Talk given in 2023. The speaker is from BIPM, and the talk was hosted by the BIPM. Fantastic talk.
Political correctness by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli believes it generally hurts more than it helps.
Especially when you can't even mention censored things to criticize them. You have to pretend they never existed. So people will forget about them, and do them again in the future.
And when companies do it just to look good, even though it has absolutely no real impact on the lives of those who are discriminated against.
Particularly cool is to see how Fresnel fully understood that light is somehow polarized, even though he did not know that it was made out of electromagnetism, clear indication of which only came with the Faraday effect in 1845.
spie.org/publications/fg05_p03_maluss_law:
At the beginning of the nineteenth century the only known way to generate polarized light was with a calcite crystal. In 1808, using a calcite crystal, Malus discovered that natural incident light became polarized when it was reflected by a glass surface, and that the light reflected close to an angle of incidence of 57° could be extinguished when viewed through the crystal. He then proposed that natural light consisted of the s- and p-polarizations, which were perpendicular to each other.

Pinned article: Introduction to the OurBigBook Project

Welcome to the OurBigBook Project! Our goal is to create the perfect publishing platform for STEM subjects, and get university-level students to write the best free STEM tutorials ever.
Everyone is welcome to create an account and play with the site: ourbigbook.com/go/register. We belive that students themselves can write amazing tutorials, but teachers are welcome too. You can write about anything you want, it doesn't have to be STEM or even educational. Silly test content is very welcome and you won't be penalized in any way. Just keep it legal!
We have two killer features:
  1. topics: topics group articles by different users with the same title, e.g. here is the topic for the "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus" ourbigbook.com/go/topic/fundamental-theorem-of-calculus
    Articles of different users are sorted by upvote within each article page. This feature is a bit like:
    • a Wikipedia where each user can have their own version of each article
    • a Q&A website like Stack Overflow, where multiple people can give their views on a given topic, and the best ones are sorted by upvote. Except you don't need to wait for someone to ask first, and any topic goes, no matter how narrow or broad
    This feature makes it possible for readers to find better explanations of any topic created by other writers. And it allows writers to create an explanation in a place that readers might actually find it.
    Figure 1.
    Screenshot of the "Derivative" topic page
    . View it live at: ourbigbook.com/go/topic/derivative
  2. local editing: you can store all your personal knowledge base content locally in a plaintext markup format that can be edited locally and published either:
    This way you can be sure that even if OurBigBook.com were to go down one day (which we have no plans to do as it is quite cheap to host!), your content will still be perfectly readable as a static site.
    Figure 5. . You can also edit articles on the Web editor without installing anything locally.
    Video 3.
    Edit locally and publish demo
    . Source. This shows editing OurBigBook Markup and publishing it using the Visual Studio Code extension.
  3. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook-media/master/feature/x/hilbert-space-arrow.png
  4. Infinitely deep tables of contents:
    Figure 6.
    Dynamic article tree with infinitely deep table of contents
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    Descendant pages can also show up as toplevel e.g.: ourbigbook.com/cirosantilli/chordate-subclade
All our software is open source and hosted at: github.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook
Further documentation can be found at: docs.ourbigbook.com
Feel free to reach our to us for any help or suggestions: docs.ourbigbook.com/#contact