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Cube Space

For the late Cardinal Glemp of Poland, who died yesterday, some links: Sacramental Nature Inside the White Cube Cube Space Cube Trinity White Cube Gallery Tempular What Evil…

DNA and a Galois Field

From Ewan Birney's weblog today: WEDNESDAY, 23 JANUARY 2013 Using DNA as a digital archive media Today sees the publication in Nature  of “Toward practical high-capacity low-maintenance storage…

Garden Path

(Continued from Epiphany 2012) Yesterday's link to the post Special Topics suggests a review of the garden of forking paths. An example of such paths, given in the Special Topics…

Für Elise

Elise in "The Adjustment Bureau" (release date: March 4, 2011)— A quote for this unlikely pair: "Harry decides his chief peacetime duty is to use his gift for…

But Seriously…

Introductory Aramaic See also a theater review in yesterday's print NY Times and a video in today's online Times:

The Problem Problem

For connoisseurs of psychological tests,  here is an inverse puzzle: Given these choices for a solution , what is a suitable problem ?  There is, of course, no single…

Raven Light

"…a fundamental cognitive ability known as 'fluid' intelligence: the capacity to solve novel problems, to learn, to reason, to see connections and to get to the bottom of…

Winner

"Well, I got there!" — D. H. Lawrence, "The Rocking-Horse Winner"

Shining Forth

(Continued from March 15, 2001) For one sort of regimentation, see Elements  of Geometry.

On the Road

(For Your Consideration  continued) Today's New York Times  story on Jacobin  magazine suggests the following sequel to a Jan. 10 post on Spielberg's Lincoln . The magazine has, the…