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Obituaries for New Year's Eve— A link from Christmas Day— Easter meditations— See also… Valéry's reference to "a broken phrase by Pascal," The shattered rock of a Wallace…
"I never had any hesitation or regrets…." — Rita Levi-Montalcini, who died today at 103 See also today's previous post and… Turning the Page:
George Steiner, Real Presences , first published in 1989— The inception of critical thought, of a philosophic anthropology, is contained in the archaic Greek definition of man as…
"It is not often anyone will hear the phrase 'Galois field' and 'DNA' together…." — Ewan Birney at his weblog on July 3, 2012. Try a Google search. (And…
A mapping problem posed (informally) in 1985 and solved 27 years later, in 2012: See also Finite Relativity and Finite Relativity: The Triangular Version. (A note for fans…
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis in Looper : Bruce Willis in 12 Monkeys : See also Big Time in this journal.
From Don DeLillo's novel Point Omega — I knew what he was, or what he was supposed to be, a defense intellectual, without the usual credentials, and when…
Note that the visible faces of the die, in counter -clockwise order, are 3 6 5. See also this journal 365 days ago and, since 2012 is a leap year,…
Yesterday's post on the current Museum of Modern Art exhibition "Inventing Abstraction: 1910-1925" suggests a renewed look at abstraction and a fundamental building block: the cube. From a…
This journal on June 24, 2006— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance , 1974: "But what's happening is that each year our old flat earth…