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Kernel

(Continued) Rachel Dodes in The Wall Street Journal on All Souls' Day, 2012— "In one of the first lines uttered by Daniel Day-Lewis, playing Abraham Lincoln in the…

Hey RAM*

Last evening's NY Lottery numbers 985 and 3274, interpreted as the numbers of Log24 posts, suggest a look at Joyce's nightmare— history. * The title refers both to…

Ananga Ranga*

The Telegraph  this evening has an obituary for Theresa Brown, a Texas madam who reportedly  died on September 18, 2012. In her honor, an update has been made to a Log24…

A Passage to India

(Continued) On a mathematician who died on All Souls' Day 2012— "… he enthusiastically shared with us the many stories of Indian epics like Mahabharata." — Online tribute This…

Group Actions

The December 2012 Notices of the American Mathematical Society  has an ad on page 1564 (in a review of two books on vulgarized mathematics) for three workshops next year…

Gyre, Illustrated

The title refers to today's previous post, "In the Widening Gyre." "In modal logic, specifically when representing possible worlds, @ is sometimes used as a logical symbol to denote the…

In the Widening Gyre

Tiw's Day

“All our words from loose using have lost their edge.” — Ernest Hemingway A newly coined term— "Spyfall"— — is good, but not as good as… NORway. (Click on NOR…

Quine's Dagger

This post was suggested by other weblogs'  posts on Owen Barfield* quoted here recently, by the Apollo Guidance Computer (see below and MIT Technology Review), and by James Joyce:…

The Usual Suspects

Four southern authors— Of particular interest in light of previous posts on singer Alicia Keys and on author Octavia Butler — author Charles G. Bell, second from left above. See videos…