Daily Archives: 24 July 2011

Snakes

We’ve had our snake Sid for some time now. Here she is, earlier today: Sid is a corn snake (Elaphe guttata). We think she’s a ‘she’, based on the morphology of the tail, but don’t know for sure. Corn snakes … Continue reading

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Dilemma [17]

As well as a dilemma, we have the potentially useful term trilemma and even tetralemma (the choice between two, three or four options respectively). But a lemma, in mathematics anyway, is a stepping-stone in a proof, and does not mean … Continue reading

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