<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>https://ecency.com</link><image><url>https://ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>https://ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:39:39 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://ecency.com/@millipede/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Board Meetings]]></title><description><![CDATA[My oldest daughter read Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal and with great delight recounted to me one of his descriptions of a board meeting. My wife looked at me and said "I think we should count]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@millipede/board-meetings</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@millipede/board-meetings</guid><category><![CDATA[homeschool]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[millipede]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 23 Jul 2017 20:41:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Log of History:  1000xLog(6), 778 A.D.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here is the Log of History for January 6, the 6th day of the year. 1000*Log10(6) = c.778 because 10^0.778 = c. 6. So, what happened in the year 778 A.D.? Not a whole lot that I can tell. A minor ambush]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@millipede/the-log-of-history-1000xlog-6-778-a-d</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@millipede/the-log-of-history-1000xlog-6-778-a-d</guid><category><![CDATA[math]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[millipede]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 05:00:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extreme Sport Dad]]></title><description><![CDATA[This evening my oldest daughter and I jumped on our trampoline together. She likes to sit on a pillow and see how high I can bounce her. She laughed and shrieked as she bounced, in a sitting position,]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@millipede/extreme-sport-dad</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@millipede/extreme-sport-dad</guid><category><![CDATA[family]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[millipede]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 04:06:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Log of History:  1000xLog(5), 699 A.D.]]></title><description><![CDATA[1000xLog10(5) = c.699 because 10^0.699 = c. 5. So, what happened in the year 699 A.D.? The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: This year the Picts slew Alderman Burt. Whoever he was. I hope it was quick. If they'd]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@millipede/the-log-of-history-1000xlog-5-699-a-d</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@millipede/the-log-of-history-1000xlog-5-699-a-d</guid><category><![CDATA[math]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[millipede]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2017 04:55:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Log of History:  1000xLog(4), 602 A.D.]]></title><description><![CDATA[1000*Log10(4) = c.602 because 10^0.602 = c. 4. So, what happened in the year 602 A.D.? In the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Emperor Maurice was murdered by a subordinate named Phocas, who immediately became]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@millipede/the-log-of-history-1000xlog-4-602-a-d</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@millipede/the-log-of-history-1000xlog-4-602-a-d</guid><category><![CDATA[math]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[millipede]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2017 05:39:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Log of History:  1000xLog(3), 477 A.D.]]></title><description><![CDATA[1000xLog10(3) = c.477 because 10^0.477 = c. 3. So, what happened in the year 477 A.D.? According to this website, there was a ruler in India named Buddhagupta. That should be an easy one to remember, although]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@millipede/the-log-of-history-1000xlog-3-477-a-d</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@millipede/the-log-of-history-1000xlog-3-477-a-d</guid><category><![CDATA[math]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[millipede]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jun 2017 05:33:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Log of History:  1000xLog(2), 301 A.D.]]></title><description><![CDATA[1000*Log10(2) = c.301 because 10^0.301 = c. 2. ("c." is for circa, meaning "approximately" or "about" in Latin. Multiplying the Log by 1000 makes it look more like a year]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@millipede/the-log-of-history-1000xlog-2-301-a-d</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@millipede/the-log-of-history-1000xlog-2-301-a-d</guid><category><![CDATA[math]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[millipede]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2017 19:40:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Log of History:  1000xLog(1) = Zero A.D. (or C.E. if you prefer)]]></title><description><![CDATA[1000xLog10(1) = 0 because 10^0 = 1. It took me some time while studying trigonometry to become convinced that mathematicians hadn't just defined whatever to the zero power as one because it had been so]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@millipede/the-log-of-history-1000xlog-1-zero-a-d-or-c-e-if-you-prefer</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@millipede/the-log-of-history-1000xlog-1-zero-a-d-or-c-e-if-you-prefer</guid><category><![CDATA[math]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[millipede]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2017 13:29:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Log of History]]></title><description><![CDATA[In second grade (I was eight years old that year), my teacher informed us that we would be memorizing "the times tables" from 1x1 to 12x12 that year. I missed the "that year" part and]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@millipede/the-log-of-history</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@millipede/the-log-of-history</guid><category><![CDATA[math]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[millipede]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2017 05:34:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Power of Uppity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Years ago one of my daughters was climbing on the monkey bars at a local playground. While climbing down she informed me "I can get down a lot easier than I can get up!" I replied It's usually]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@millipede/the-power-of-uppity</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@millipede/the-power-of-uppity</guid><category><![CDATA[children]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[millipede]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2017 04:40:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Power of Avoiding Random Coincidence]]></title><description><![CDATA[All my professional life as a biologist, I’ve studied the effects of random encounters on living organisms. Organisms are designed to make use of as many random coincidences as possible. Random encounters]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@millipede/the-power-of-avoiding-random-coincidence</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@millipede/the-power-of-avoiding-random-coincidence</guid><category><![CDATA[coincidence]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[millipede]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2017 03:51:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Humor of Random Coincidence]]></title><description><![CDATA[I met my second military entomologist while working in a lab genetically engineering mosquitoes. “Hey, I used to know a military entomologist,” I said, “over a decade ago, back when I worked on crickets!”]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@millipede/the-humor-of-random-coincidence</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@millipede/the-humor-of-random-coincidence</guid><category><![CDATA[random]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[millipede]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2017 04:37:36 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>