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How Many Licks?: Or, How to Estimate Damn Near Anything

How many licks to the center of a Tootsie Pop? How many people are having sex at this moment? How long would it take a monkey on a typewriter to produce the plays of Shakespeare? For all those questions that keep you up at night, here’s the way to answer them. And the beauty of it is that it’s all approximate!
Using Enrico Fermi’s theory of approximation, Santos brings the world of numbers into perspective. For puzzle junkies and trivia fanatics, these 70 word puzzles will show the reader how to take a bit of information, add what they already know, and extrapolate an answer.
Santos has done the impossible: make math and the multiple possibilities of numbers fun and informative. Can you really cry a river? Is it possible to dig your way out of jail with just a teaspoon and before your life sentence is up?
Taking an academic subject and using it as the prism to view everyday off-the-wall questions as math problems to be solved is a natural step for the lovers of sudoku, cryptograms, word puzzles, and other thought-provoking games.

How many licks to the center of a Tootsie Pop? How many people are having sex at this moment? How long would it take a monkey on a typewriter to produce the plays of Shakespeare? For all those questions that keep you up at night, here’s the way to answer them. And the beauty of it is that it’s all approximate!
Using Enrico Fermi’s theory of approximation, Santos brings the world of numbers into perspective. For puzzle junkies and trivia fanatics, these 70 word puzzles will show the reader how to take a bit of information, add what they already know, and extrapolate an answer.
Santos has done the impossible: make math and the multiple possibilities of numbers fun and informative. Can you really cry a river? Is it possible to dig your way out of jail with just a teaspoon and before your life sentence is up?
Taking an academic subject and using it as the prism to view everyday off-the-wall questions as math problems to be solved is a natural step for the lovers of sudoku, cryptograms, word puzzles, and other thought-provoking games.

Animal rights group wants to shut down Alaska aerial wolf hunt

By Tim Mowry

Originally published Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 12:00 a.m.
Updated Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 12:55 p.m.

FAIRBANKS — National animal rights group Defenders of Wildlife went to court Wednesday seeking an injunction to stop the Department of Fish and Game from shooting wolves from a helicopter in the eastern Interior.

The state began shooting wolves from a helicopter in the Fortymile region east of Tok last weekend to supplement efforts by private pilot-gunner teams participating in a state predator control program in the area to increase the number of moose and caribou for hunters. As of Wednesday afternoon, 59 wolves had been shot and killed using a helicopter, according to Fish and Game.

The region is one of five in the state in which the department is conducting predator control programs, but it is the only one in which a helicopter or state personnel are being used.

Wade Willis, the Alaska representative for Defenders, filed the request for an injunction in Anchorage District Court on Wednesday. The organization contends new regulations approved by the state Board of Game earlier this month allowing the use of helicopters and department personnel to kill wolves do not go into effect until July 1 because they were not passed during an emergency meeting.

“What they are doing in that region right now is illegal,” Willis said.

Jennifer Yuhas, communications director for Fish and Game, would not comment on the legality of the new regulations and said the court will decide whether or not the department can continue using a helicopter to shoot wolves. Until then, the program will continue, she said.

“The Defenders of Wildlife chose the courts as their forum for this debate, so that’s the proper place for it to play out,” Yuhas said.

The department is aiming to kill as many as 150 of the estimated 400 wolves in the region using a helicopter, in addition to those killed by hunters, trappers and pilot-gunner teams participating in the state’s predator control program.

After taking yesterdays 365 I sat at the pc and heard a thump behind me, I turned round to see the body of the lens doing a "Barnes Wallace" across the floor, the camera, tripod and securing ring for the lens were laying on the floor.

After a period of wailing and gnashing of teeth I came round and picked up the remains.

I've taken it into a camera shop in town and they estimate the repair to be about ?100 to ?150 and will take about 4 to 6 weeks, I'm hoping it will be the lower quote, will have to wait and see.