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Annals of Quantum Hype

Yesterday's link to Aaronson and Turing suggests a review of events on August 16, 2012 in the light of Log24 on that date. Exhibit A: New Institute for…

Form:

Story, Structure, and the Galois Tesseract Recent Log24 posts have referred to the  "Penrose diamond" and Minkowski space. The Penrose diamond has nothing whatever to do with my 1976…

Transgressing the Boundary

The title refers not to the 1996 Sokal hoax (which has Boundaries , plural, in the title), but to the boundary discussed in Monday's Penrose diamond post— "Science is…

Midnight in the Garden

(Continued, to mark Tuesday's birthdays of Lincoln and Darwin.) A British reporter who died at 97 on Tuesday is said to have "covered the space race in its…

The Penrose Diamond

Related material: (Click to enlarge.) See also remarks on Penrose linked to in Sacerdotal Jargon. (For a connection of these remarks to the Penrose diamond, see April 1, 2012.)

Pope To Resign

Logo

In memory of Rabbi David Hartman, who died yesterday. The architecture is by Lou Gelehrter. I do not know the logo designer's name.

Please Mister Please

Related material:  Group Actions and B17.

Semiotics for Kearney*

Click image for some background. Context: Arsenal (Feb. 5), Dictum (Feb. 8) Snow Dance (Feb. 9) The Cleaning (Feb. 10) Topics (Feb. 10) and the following post from…

Topics

Suggested by a recent review of a book by Richard Kearney: The World,  the Flesh, and the Devil. Talk amongst yourselves.