Perhaps the main difference if the earth were a cube would be that students would become much more frustrated trying to calculate the gravitational field. For a uniform cube with side length L and density rho, the gravitational force on mass m at position (x,y,z) is given by
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This is a really super fun question. I only wish that Randall Munroe, not me, were answering, so he could draw cool pictures.
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We dished our fair share of smack talk towards Ashton Kutcher
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Microsoft has just announced that the Bing website is now integrating Quora in the social side bar. The idea -says Bing- is that the Microsoft search engine not only want to show pertinent search results, but also who provides relevant answers. Although there are relevant answers elsewhere (forums, Q&A sites…), this is a potentially huge win for Quora, where most users log-in via Facebook with their real identity. U.S based users should start seeing Quora contributors in the sidebar, today. (more…)
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Bing New Architecture: Introducing Snapshot and Social Sidebar, Yahoo benefits from Google losses in July US search market share,
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